Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum dunks the ball through the NBA All-Star sport between Crew Giannis and Crew LeBron on the Vivint enviornment in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, February 19, 2023. (Photograph by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
A attainable change to the NBA All-Star Recreation might deliver again a well-known format — East vs West.
With a watch towards elevated competitiveness within the exhibition sport, the NBA and the gamers’ union are contemplating that change and probably others within the subsequent collective bargaining settlement, The Athletic reported on Friday.
The league’s Board of Governors and basic managers have talked of scrapping the present format, which has two gamers drafting groups of All-Stars for the sport, whatever the gamers’ convention. Modifications are attainable for the 2023-24 season, per the Athletic.
The sport featured All-Stars from the Jap and Western conferences till 2018. A format tweak in 2020, often called the Elam ending, had the fourth quarter performed and not using a sport clock, however with a set goal rating. The primary workforce to succeed in that time whole was the winner.
This 12 months’s All-Star Recreation was the primary wherein the captains selected sides simply earlier than tipoff. In earlier incarnations beneath the captain-selecting format, the groups had been decided effectively prematurely of sport day.
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