NBA All-Star Weekend

Location: Orlando, FL
Venue: Amway Center
Date: Friday, February 24 - Sunday, February 26, 2012

The 2012 NBA All-Star Weekend at the Amway Center will be filled with a variety of events and exhibitions culminating in the NBA All-Star Game held on Sunday night.

Weekend Package

Includes deluxe hotel accommodations in Orlando, a ticket to the NBA All-Star Game and All-Star Saturday Night, event transfers, gifts and more.

Game Package

Includes deluxe hotel accommodations in Orlando, a ticket to the NBA All-Star Game, event transfers, gifts and more.

Local Package

Includes a ticket to the NBA All-Star Game and All-Star Saturday Night, event transfers, gifts and more.

Event History

The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. From that year on, the game has matched the best players in the Eastern Conference with the best players in the Western Conference.

The participants are currently chosen in two ways. The first is via fan ballot, with the leading vote recipients at each position starting the game; secondly the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches of each squad's particular conference. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players. If a player is injured and cannot participate, the commissioner will select a replacement.

The coaches who currently lead the teams with the most wins in their conference through the Sunday two weeks before the game coach their respective conferences. However, the same coach cannot coach the team in consecutive seasons. This is the so-called "Riley Rule" so named because coach Pat Riley's Lakers teams of the 1980s won so often that he coached the Western Conference team eight times in nine seasons from 1982 to 1990. In the event that a coach's team repeats as the best record holder the coach from the team with the second best record will serve as All-Star coach for that conference.

Aside from the game, the NBA All-Star Weekend also features the Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout, Skills Challenge, Shooting Stars Competition and Rookie Challenge.