Who: Current and former NBA stars
What: All-Star Saturday Night (and other events all week)
Where: Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave., 718-618-6700
When: Saturday, February 14, 8:30
Why: The NBA All-Star Game might be taking place on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, but the All-Stars and other top NBA and WNBA players and legends will be in Brooklyn the night before, participating in skills competitions that are usually a whole lot more fun and exciting than the no-defense game. Shooting Stars features Team Bosh (Chris Bosh, Dominique Wilkins, Swin Cash), Team Curry (Stephen Curry, Dell Curry, Sue Bird), Team Davis (Anthony Davis, Scottie Pippen, Elena Delle Donne), and Team Westbrook (Russell Westbrook, Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway, Tamika Catchings) showing what they got from different spots on the court. Trey Burke, Jimmy Butler, Michael Carter-Williams, Brandon Knight, Kyle Lowry, Jeff Teague, Isaiah Thomas, and John Wall will go up against one another in the Skills Challenge. Battling it out in the Three-Point Contest will be Marco Belinelli, Stephen Curry, James Harden, Kyrie Irving, Kyle Korver, Wesley Matthews, J. J. Redick, and Klay Thompson. And then Mason Plumlee, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Zach LaVine, and Victor Oladipo will put the icing on the cake in the Slam Dunk competition. In addition, there will be special events February 10-16 at the NBA House in Moynihan Station ($20), the All-Star Celebrity Game (with Kevin Hart, Ansel Elgort, Anthony Anderson, Common, Mo’ne Davis, Win Butler, Chadwick Boseman, Nick Cannon,Allan Houston,Chris Mullin, Blake Leeper, Michael Rapaport, Robert Pera, Kristen Ledlow, Abhishek Bachchan, Shoni Schimmel, Skylar Diggins, and Tina Charles, coached by Carmelo Anthony, Spike Lee, Mike Golic, and Mike Greenberg) at the Garden on February 13 at 7:00 ($15-$105), the Rising Stars Challenge, pitting the U.S. (Trey Burke, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Michael Carter-Williams, Zach LaVine, Shabazz Muhammad, Nerlens Noel, Victor Oladipo, Elfrid Payton, Mason Plumlee, Cody Zeller) against the world (Steven Adams, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bojan Bogdanovic, Gorgui Dieng, Dante Exum, Rudy Gobert, Nikola Mirotic, Kelly Olynyk, Dennis Schroder, Andrew Wiggins), on February 13 at 9:00 at Barclays ($22-$87), an open practice at the World’s Most Famous Arena on February 14 at 10:30 am ($15-$105), and the NY Heroes: Bravest vs. Finest game at Barclays on February 15 at 12:30, followed by the NBA D-League All-Star Game at 2:00 ($10-$70).