The 2025 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday will look very different from previous incarnations of the league's midseason exhibition of stars. This year's edition will consist of a four-team, three-game tournament, with 40 points the target goal for each contest. Three squads of All-Stars -- Team Chuck, Team Kenny and Team Shaq -- will be joined by Team Candace, which will be the winning team from the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday (Team Mullin). Team Shaq is the +105 favorite to win it all (risk $100 to win $105), followed by Team Chuck (+160), Team Kenny (+350) and Team Candace (+1100), per the latest NBA odds. LeBron James has been named the NBA All-Star Game MVP three times and is listed at +900 (risk $100 to win $900) to win it this year.

The first matchup, which is Team Kenny vs. Team Chuck, tips off at 8:20 p.m. ET, with Charles Barkley's squad of international players favored by 3.5 points (over/under 75.5) per the 2025 NBA All-Star Game odds. Then, Team Shaq vs. Team Candace at approximately 9:10 p.m. ET has Shaquille O'Neal's grizzled crew as a 6.5-point favorite with the over/under at 73.5. The NBA All-Star Game 2025 Championship will then tip off at approximately 10 p.m. ET from the Chase Center in San Francisco. 

Before making any 2025 NBA All-Star Game picks, you'll want to see what elite NBA expert Mike Barner has to say.

Barner is one of the most respected voices in the industry, and his work has appeared in Sports Illustrated and on Yahoo, RotoWire and KFFL. He's also been featured on ESPN Radio. He digs deep into the data, examining team trends and projecting game outcomes. If there's anybody who can spot an edge in a matchup or identify a player in position to break out, it's him.

Barner's expertise has been on full display lately. He is on an amazing 80-52 run on NBA player prop picks, returning $1,836 to $100 players.

Now, he has analyzed the 2025 NBA All-Star Game from all angles and is delivering his picks for SportsLine. We can tell you Barner is fading Team Kenny, despite it having young and hungry players whose games are tailor-made for an All-Star Game, like Anthony Edwards and Cade Cunningham.

However, he's identified one team that will come away with the victory, and that critical X-factor that could influence the event's outcome. You ABSOLUTELY need to see it before locking in any picks of your own.

So who wins the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, and what critical X-factor do you need to know about? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Sunday's NBA All-Star Game pick, all from the SportsLine expert who is up over $1,800 on NBA picks!