Each year, NBA All-Star Weekend features the league's best and brightest stars having fun showcasing themselves to the basketball fan world. All-Star Friday features the league's best rookies against the best sophomores. All-Star Saturday features the three-point shootout, slam dunk contest and a few other fun competitions. And on All-Star Sunday, 24 of the league's best stars play the actual NBA All-Star game. InsideHoops.com has full coverage of everything.

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NBA ALL STAR WEEKEND All-Star Home | All-Star blog All-Star Game: Sunday West 146 East 119 Kobe, Shaq win co-MVP All-Star Saturday D-League All-Star: co-MVPs H-o-r-s-e: Durant wins Shooting Stars: Detroit wins Skills Challenge: D.Rose wins 3-point shootout: D.Cook wins Dunk contest: Nate Rob wins All-Star Friday NBA Celebrity Game MVP: Terrell Owens (17 points) Sophs 122 Rookies 116 MVP: Kevin Durant (46 points) D-League Skills Comp

Everything that happened on Friday and Saturday has notes/recaps. Click below on any event.

QUICK 2009 NBA ALL-STAR SCHEDULE All times Eastern (ET) Thursday, Feb. 14 7 p.m. ET NBA/NWBA All-Star Wheelchair Classic Friday, Feb. 13 7pm ET: NBA Celebrity Game (ESPN) 9pm ET: Rookie Challenge Game (TNT) 9:15 p.m. ET: D-League Skills Competition Saturday, Feb. 14 4pm ET: D-League All-Star game (NBA TV) 5pm-7pm ET: Inside the NBA, HORSE game (TNT) 8pm ET: NBA All-Star Saturday Night (TNT) ------ Shooting Stars TNT ------ Skills Challenge TNT ------ Three-Point Shootout TNT ------ Slam Dunk Contest TNT Sunday, Feb. 15 8PM: 58th NBA All-Star Game TNT

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LAST YEAR'S NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND

Each year NBA All-Star Weekend features the league's best and brightest stars having fun and showcasing themselves to the world. Friday features the league's best rookies against the best sophomores, Saturday features the three-point shootout and slam dunk contest, and Sunday delivers the All-Star game. Plus more.

2009 NBA ALL STAR WEEKEND (FEB 13-15) COVERAGE BEGINS ON INSIDEHOOPS.COM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEB 11 -- GUARANTEED!

Hit our All-Star Blog constantly. It's updated every hour or two all weekend long.

From Sunday: All-Star game: East 134, West 128. LeBron MVP | LeBron James interview: He praises Turkoglu | Joe Johnson interview: reppin' the Hawks | Ray Allen ponders overseas expansion | Rasheed on being named All-Star | Jamison talks Wizards offense | Chris Bosh on his web videos | Caron Butler on being an All-Star | Bosh to start in Garnett's place

From Saturday: Kings trade Mike Bibby to Hawks | Full Dwight Howard interview after winning Dunk contest | Chris Paul interview after losing Skills Challenge | Dwight Howard wins Slam Dunk contest | Jason Kapono wins 3-point Shootout | Deron Williams wins Skills Challenge | San Antonio wins Shooting Stars | Richard Hamilton interview: Long, must-read on lots of stuff | Dwyane Wade interview: Quick reaction to Shaq trade | Jeremy Richardson wins MVP of D-League All-Star game

From Friday: Celeb Game notes | Rookie Challenge notes | Kobe Bryant interview | Carmelo Anthony interview | Jason Kidd interview | Dirk Nowitzki interview | D-League Dream Factory results

QUICK 2008 NBA ALL-STAR SCHEDULE All times Eastern (ET) Friday, Feb. 15 NBA Celebrity Game Notes: Terrell Owens, who only played in one half, won MVP. 9PM: Rookie Challenge Game TNT 9PM: D-League All-Star Events No TV Saturday, Feb. 16 3PM: D-League All-Star game NBA TV 8PM: Shooting Stars TNT ------ Skills Challenge TNT ------ Three-Point Shootout TNT ------ Slam Dunk Contest TNT Sunday, Feb. 17 8PM: 57th NBA All-Star Game TNT

Additional 2008 NBA All-Star weekend info:
NBA All-Star Entertainment: 2008 Performers
Final fan voting results for all-star game starters
All-Star Weekend 'by the numbers'
All-Star injured player replacements

MORE DETAILED EVENTS SCHEDULE

NBA All-Star Friday | Feb. 15 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game A celeb-filled game for fun, this year with Master P, Chris Tucker, Deion Sanders, Common and others. More. 7PM on ESPN NBA Rookie Challenge The best rookies battle the best sophomores, featuring Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Al Horford, Yi Jianlian, Sean Williams, LaMarcus Aldridge, Andrea Bargnani and others. More. 9PM ET on TNT

NBA All-Star Saturday | Feb. 16 NBA Shooting Stars Shooting contest between four teams, each with a current NBA player, current WNBA player and retired NBA legend. Featuring Chauncey Billups, Bill Laimbeer, Chris Duhon, BJ Armstrong, Amare Stoudemire, Eddie Johnson, Tim Duncan and David Robinson. More. Skills Challenge Players shoot, dribble and pass through obstacle course as fast as possible, featuring Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Deron Williams. More. Slam Dunk Contest Four dunkers throw down their best slams. Returning champ Gerald Green battles Dwight Howard, Jamario Moon and Rudy Gay. More. Three-point Shootout Famous three-point shooting contest with returning champ Jason Kapono plus Dirk Nowitzki (replacing Kobe Bryant), Daniel Gibson, Richard Hamilton, Steve Nash and Peja Stojakovic. More.

NBA All-Star Sunday | Feb. 17 NBA All-Star Game All-Star Weekend's main event, featuring the league's best and brightest stars, including LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Allen Iverson, Steve Nash and more. More.