The NBA are taking a look at a special format as soon as once more for February’s 2025 All-Star recreation, in a determined try to revive a dull occasion.
The followers have given up on the All-Star recreation itself, however it appears as if the league remains to be looking for new methods to make it partaking.
“We’re taking a look at totally different codecs for this 12 months’s All-Star Sport. So it’s not a conventional recreation format,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated Saturday in Mexico Metropolis.
How will this 12 months’s San Francisco occasion be totally different? Silver gained’t but reveal that, however Steph Curry might have some enter.
“We’ve had direct conversations with Steph Curry. It’s a house recreation for him. I do know he’s very prideful and desires to make it possible for the gamers put their greatest foot ahead, so we’re taking a look at different codecs,” Silver stated. “I believe there’s little question that the gamers had been disillusioned as properly in final 12 months’s All-Star Sport. All of us wish to do a greater job offering competitors and leisure for our followers.”
The spotlight of final 12 months’s All-Star Weekend was the 3-point shootout between Curry and WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu and Silver says they’ll be bringing it again in some type.
“Sabrina Ionescu is from the Bay Space. In fact as I stated, Steph goes to be there, and I can’t bear in mind in the event that they’ve formally dedicated or informally dedicated however they know they’re going to be doing this once more. They’re wanting ahead to it,” Silver stated. “I believe as quickly as they walked off the court docket after the competitors final 12 months, in truth they stated we want a couple of spherical to make it even fairer. So we’re going to be doing extra issues.”
The NFL stopped operating the Professional Bowl recreation as a result of lack of competitiveness, as gamers had been apprehensive about getting injured in an exhibition recreation. It has gone to only a abilities competitions and a few flag soccer.
Silver doesn’t seem to be he’s going to surrender totally on the All-Star Sport but, however the product simply retains getting worse.
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