The NBA All-Star Game and all the attendant weekend festivities come to San Francisco this year with the Golden State Warriors hosting the contest on their home court at Chase Center.

The biggest stars in the NBA shined in the newly formatted All-Star Game that featured a four-team mini-tournament. The format was designed to have the players put on an entertaining performance for the thousands of fans in attendance.

The NBA All-Star Game is an economic success for the sport but the game has declined in popularity, with a format change coming this year in San Francisco.

The first NBA All-Star Game was played in 1951 at Boston Gardens and it only happened because Celtics owner Walter Brown agreed to cover any losses the game might incur. It drew 10,000 people and was considered an instant success.

The NBA is already trying to tinker with its All-Star Weekend next year after the 2025 changes were met with mixed results.

As NBA All-Star Weekend kicks off in the Bay Area​, local and international communities united through food, music, culture and sport.

It was six hours before game time and people were already filing into the Thrive City plaza outside the Chase Center.

That number is a 13 percent decrease on the 2024 NBA All-Star Game, which drew 5.398 million viewers. And the numbers get even worse than that. It was the second-least-watched game in the event’s history, according to Front Office Sports, barely beating out the 2023 game, which had about 4.6 million people watching.

Front Office Sports reported on Wednesday that the 2025 NBA All-Star Game averaged just 4.7 million viewers across all TNT platforms. That is down 13 percent when compared to last year’s NBA All-Star Game.

Welcome NBA Fans! With the All-Star game in the rearview mirror, we’re officially two months until the NBA playoffs. It will be interesting to see how the stars that were dealt with at the deadline impact how their team will perform in the final stretch and how the play-in race takes form.