{"id":482153,"date":"2026-02-03T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482153"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:18:15","slug":"darko-rajakovic-to-coach-world-team-in-2026-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/darko-rajakovic-to-coach-world-team-in-2026-nba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Darko Rajakovic to coach World Team in 2026 NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has announced that Toronto Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic will lead the World Team in this year&#8217;s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>The new format requires three coaches on the bench, with Rajakovic joining Bickerstaff (Pistons) and Johnson (Spurs).<\/p>\n<p>Rajakovic helped the Raptors to put together a record of 30 wins in 51 games &#8211; currently fourth in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Game rosters have also been announced, with former NBA players like Tacko Fall, NBA insider Shams Charania, more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udf1f The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RUFFLES?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RUFFLES<\/a> Celeb Game rosters! \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Friday, 2\/13 at 7:00pm\/et on ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYmokUPVXO\">pic.twitter.com\/JYmokUPVXO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2018735740151386500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovi\u0107 has been named by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver as head coach of Team World for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Serbia, Rajakovi\u0107 has guided the Raptors to a 30-21 record in his third season as their head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Rajakovi\u0107\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hMNTGQN63T\">pic.twitter.com\/hMNTGQN63T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2018723751932670369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Celebrity Game rosters have also been announced, with former NBA players like Tacko Fall, NBA insider Shams Charania, more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":482152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/HAPyjWIXkAAl5iO.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482153"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482153"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482153"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}