Oklahoma.i start – The NBA is working on a plan to convert the All-Star game next season into an American-VS.-World competition, a person with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday.
It is not clear how the format will work, said the person, who spoke with Associated Press about the condition of anonymity because the league has not made any final determination. In statements to Fox Sports 1 on Wednesday, the NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, – Who has talked about such a game on multiple occasions? – He was asked if we against the world are possible.
“Yes,” said Silver.
Silver approached the idea on March 27 also at the most recent meeting of the Board of Governors of the League, when he revealed that the NBA was discarding the all-style mini-termination format that was used this season.
At that time, The AP reported that game 2026 -To play on February 15 in Inglewood, California, just after the midpoint of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, will move from its traditional tragamoneas of schedule hours of time schedule schedule schedule schedule to one that begins on Sunday afternoon. That is happening because the game will be transmitted in NBC under the terms of the new 11 -year media rights agreements that are worried next season. NBC is also the Olympic station in the US.
Then, NBC could show Olympic events in the morning and early in the afternoon, then the star game, then have an Olympic program in star schedule.
The movement occurs immediately after a popular tournament, the confrontation of the 4 nations, which essentially occupied the place of the NHL star game this year, as well as a strong competition in the Olympic Games in Paris, where the Americans won a fifth consecutive gold medal by concentrating the past Jokic and Serbia in the semifinals, then in the game of victories and victor Victor of the Victor of the First Victor of Victim in the game of the title. Behind a flood of late triple of Stephen Curry.
“What better time to present any form of USA against the world?” Silver said in FS1. “I am not exactly sure what the format will be. Obviously I paid a lot of attention to what the NHL did, which was a great success … but also, returning, last summer, our Olympic competition was a great success.”
There is a great challenge with respect to any US-VS-World format. About 70% of NBA players are Americans, while 30% are international, so in theory it would be easier for an international player to do the All-Star team, if the lists are the same size.
International players, when asked in this year’s All-Star game if they would like an American confrontation-VS.-World, it sounded enthusiastic.
“I would love it. My opinion is that it has more purpose,” said Wembanyama in February. “There is more pride. More bets.”
Giannis Antetokounmpo de Milwaukee was added, which is from Greece: “I would love that. Oh, I would love.
The last format for the game of stars, a mini tournament of three teams and three games in San Francisco, with the first team at 40 points winning each one, was a failure. He arrived after years of the league asking the players a more competitive game.
The final score 211-186 in Indianapolis in 2024 was the height, and the League, for a year, anyway, he thought that the tournament was the answer.
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