This weekend, the NBA All-Star events will be held in the Bay Area, along with the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco’s Chinatown. These events will bring tens of thousands into San Francisco and help boost the local economy, which has been struggling since the COVID reopening.
Many of the venues for this weekend’s events are accessible from the Muni Metro T-Third Line. To promote transit usage, Muni will offer free rides for everyone on all lines except the cable cars on Saturday and Sunday. For those planning to attend events at Chase Center, the game ticket is also valid for rides on Muni. Attendees are encouraged to use regional transit, including BART, Caltrain, and ferries, to reach Downtown San Francisco.

Many of the NBA All-Star games will be held at Chase Center. Muni Metro T-Third stops in front of Chase Center and connects with BART at Powell Station. There’s a short walk involved with the BART to Muni transfer but it’s completely underground. Muni will operate additional rail shuttles (signed S Shuttle) between Chinatown and UCSF/Chase Center. For Caltrain riders, exit at 4th & King Station and either transfer to T-Third, or walk south for almost a mile (15 to 20 minute walk) to Chase Center.
Muni will also operate the 78X bus from the 16th Street/Mission BART station to Chase Center, providing additional service along the 22-Fillmore route to Mission Bay on 16th Street.
San Francisco Bay Ferry will also offer special ferry service from Oakland (Jack London Square) and Alameda (Main Street) to the ferry dock near Pier 48, a half mile north of Chase Center.
During the weekend, NBA All Star concerts will take place at Pier 48, located half a mile north of Chase Center and just across McCovey Cove from Oracle Park. Mission Rock Station is the nearest stop to the venue on the T-Third Line, and it’s within walking distance from Caltrain’s 4th & King Station. It’s important to note that BART and Caltrain will end service at regular times.
The NBA Crossover event will be held at the Moscone Center, located a third of a mile south of Market Street, a short walk from BART’s Montgomery or Powell Station. On the T-Third Line, the nearest stop is Yerba Buena/Moscone Station, just one block south of Howard Street. Howard Street will be closed to traffic between 3rd and 4th Streets. Fans taking Caltrain can walk four blocks north from 4th & King Station to the convention center or transfer to Muni’s T-Third Line.
Besides the NBA, the NBPA will host an event during the day on the weekend at Spark Social in Mission Bay. You can access that location via the T-Third from the Mission Rock stop.
On Saturday, the Chinese New Year Parade will start at Market & 2nd Street at 5 pm. The parade route is easily accessible from BART’s Montgomery and Powell stations, as well as from the T-Third at Union Square/Market Street Station and Chinatown-Rose Pak Station. That night, the F historic streetcars will be replaced by buses, and many other bus routes in the area will be rerouted. The T-Third is the preferred route to access Chinatown, as it runs underground. For those arriving via Caltrain, transfer to the T-Third at 4th & King.
Earlier in the day during the weekend, a street fair will be held on Grant Street in Chinatown, between California and Broadway.
In addition to San Francisco, some of the NBA All-Star events will be held at Oakland Arena, where the Warriors played before the Chase Center opened in 2019. Oakland Arena is accessible from BART’s Coliseum Station.