WWE’s Role Model Bayley is trading in wrestling boots for basketball sneakers as she steps onto the court for the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game! Because if there’s one thing All-Star Weekend needed, it was a little more ding-dong, hello energy.
Announced via the NBA’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, Bayley will be suiting up for Team Rice, coached by NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice and viral star Khaby Lame. She’ll be facing Team Bonds, led by baseball legend Barry Bonds and rapper 2 Chainz. Also on Bayley’s team? Former NBA champ Matt Barnes, country singers Walker Hayes and Shaboozey, comedian Druski, and fellow NFL great Terrell Owens—because nothing says basketball like putting random celebrities together and hoping for the best.
This year’s game takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, which just happens to be Bayley’s hometown stomping grounds. And while she’s known for delivering elbows off the top rope, we’ll soon see if she’s got a decent jumper or if she’s more of a “set a hard screen and talk trash” kind of player.
Of course, she won’t have much time to celebrate—or recover. The very next day, Bayley hops on a cross-country flight to Washington D.C. for NXT Vengeance Day, where she and Roxanne Perez will challenge Giulia for the NXT Women’s Championship. Because who doesn’t love back-to-back days of intense competition?
Bayley now joins The Miz as the only WWE stars to have played in the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game—though Miz did drain a half-court shot at the buzzer last year. Can Bayley deliver an equally viral moment? Will she slap on a crossface mid-game? Will Terrell Owens throw a pass so badly that Bayley puts him in a suplex? So many questions, so little time.