The NBA is thinking of changing the form of the 2026 All-Star game in Los Angeles to an international competition.
Commissioner Adam Silver last month, the league’s 2025 All-Star match after three non-popular mini-tournaments “returned to the drawing board” he said.
On Monday, Silver said that the US-born players against a foreign-born players against a squad-an international format is attractive because the game will be broadcast in the NBC in the midst of the winter Olympics of this network.
“Considering the strong interest we have seen in the Olympics in Paris last summer in the Olympics in Paris last summer, we discuss the concepts that focus on the NBA players representing their countries or regions instead of the more traditional formats we have used in the past.” He said.
NBA’s League Operations President Byron Spruell, NBC’nin Los Angeles’deki Intuit Dome for the February 15 match against the US “against the rest of the world against the rest of the world” Format idea “too much” he added, he added.
Intuit Dome, the home of Los Angeles Clippers, will also host the basketball competition at the 2028 Summer Olympics.
“So all these factors, when they come together, instead of the traditional All-Star formats we use, it offers an enormous opportunity for us to do something with international competition.” He said.
According to the League, about 70 percent of NBA players are American. However, the international talent pool includes Superstars Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, Giannis Anthetokounmpo, Victor Wembanyama and others.
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