The NBA All-Star recreation will look fairly a bit completely different this 12 months, because the league has elected to maneuver right into a format the place the All-Stars are damaged up into 4 groups. Teams will play in a semifinal with the winners advancing to the All-Star recreation last.
Each staff could have eight gamers, with three groups that includes 24 NBA All-Stars and the opposite staff that includes the gamers from the staff that wins the NBA’s Rising Stars recreation.
Kevin Durant blasted the brand new format earlier this week. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James would not go that far, however did be aware another points dealing with the league at present when requested in regards to the All-Star occasion.
“Everyone has their very own opinions,” James stated when requested in regards to the league’s new All-Star format. “It’s completely different, you realize, in a way. But I do not – we’ll see. We’ll see once we get there. …I do not know. I’ve my concepts of what might probably work, however I’m not gonna [go into] that…however hear, it is a larger dialog. It’s not simply the All-Star recreation, it is our recreation on the whole. Our recreation there’s loads of f—–g threes being shot. So it is a larger dialog than simply the All-Star recreation.”
James has seen the All-Star recreation tackle completely different iterations all through his 20 years within the NBA, however this 12 months’s will definitely be probably the most distinctive to-date.
It stays to be seen if new format will resolve the league’s reputation subject on the subject of the occasion itself, but it surely’s actually value a attempt.
