February 15, 2025
With Sunday’s win, Thunder’s Mark Daigneault secures a coaching spot in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game

With Sunday’s win, Thunder’s Mark Daigneault secures a coaching spot in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game

Last season, Mark Daigneault was the NBA Coach of the Year. This year he will coach in the All-Star Game.

With the Thunder’s win over the Nets on Sunday, Oklahoma City improved to 35-7 and had the best record in the Western Conference through the Feb. 2 deadline. That means Daigneault will coach one of the four teams in the new All-Star game format this season (and one of his assistant coaches will coach another team).

“An honor” Daigneault said after the game. “A big thank you to all the people behind the scenes in the organization who work with the players, not only this season but in previous seasons as well. “It was a building and a lot of people left their fingerprints on it.”

The two remaining coaches will be filled by the head coach of the team with the best record in the East as of Feb. 2 and one of his assistants. While it’s not official yet, it will almost certainly be Kenny Atkinson of the Cleveland Cavaliers (a team with a 6.5 game lead in the East) and one of his assistants.

The starters for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game will be announced on Thursday and Daigneault’s best player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, is sure to get one of those spots.

Daigneault will be part of the league’s experiment with the 2025 NBA All-Star Game to bring energy and competition to the event. This year four teams will take part in a mini-tournament. TThree of those teams will consist of NBA All-Star selections, and the fourth will be the champions of All-Star’s Castrol Rising Stars competition on Friday night.

The All-Star Game will take place on February 16th at the Chase Center in San Francisco, home of the Golden State Warriors.

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