The NBA is strongly considering changing its 2025 All-Star Game to a tournament style format that would pit groups of All-Stars against one another, league sources confirmed to The Athletic on Friday.
The new concept would create three teams of eight All-Stars each, as well as a fourth team coming from the winner of the Rising Stars game. The teams would then face each other in a bracket competition.
Like 3 or 4 years ago, the ASG commemorating Kobe, where each quarter was first to 24 points, and each team had picked a charity that won if they won the quarter. That was surprisingly good basketball and probably the most defense I’ve seen in an ASG. Last year’s game where both sides score 150 points was terrible. The NBA coming at things again with a quantity vs quality approach (more games!) even though so many star players are injured rn
they did the elam thing for a few years and it was really only good that first time.
all these new formats are band aids over the real problem that players just don’t give a shit about the all star game, and nothing is going to change that. they need to just go the NFL Pro Bowl route and replace the game with a bunch of silly activities.