That of “fixing” theAll-Star Game it now seems to have become one of the priorities of Adam Silver and the NBA upper echelons in general. Including players with a more authoritative voice such as Stephen Currywho has been known to be working for some time with the League commissioner on some possible improvements to be made to the weekend – and above all to the Sunday match – of the stars. The Golden State Warriors star, as well as the face of this 2025 edition which will take place in San Francisco on February 16th, is apparently working on a variation of the three-point shooting competition staged last year on Saturday against Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty, also introducing other elements, among which Shams Charania on ESPN mentions Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Klay Thompsonex Splash Brother now landed in Dallas. In addition to this challenge, a format that is easier to alter in structural terms, a total revolution would also be expected on Sunday, usually dedicated to the actual All-Star Game, a 5-on-5 between the best NBA players – with various ploys to try to make it interesting, sure, but still that. According to ESPN, NBA players, staff and managers would have seriously discussed the possibility with the competition committee of introducing a new format in recent months, also taking advantage of the Las Vegas Summer League as an opportunity to meet: the novelty would consist of a 4-player tournament teams, 3 of which are made up of 8 All-Stars each, to which add the winning team of Friday’s Rising Stars. The teams would face each other in their respective matchups – Team 1 vs Team 3, Team 2 vs Team 4 – and then move on to the final between the winners. Despite a paradoxical increase in television ratings in the last edition – an increase of 14% compared to 2023, and the percentage reaches 20% if we talk about unique viewers, at 11.6 million – the urgency of revitalizing an event that is becoming universal the effects unwatchable from the outside and unplayable from the inside (just look at the stars’ willingness to lend themselves to proposals) is rather justified and revealed by Silver himself:
“We are evaluating other formats. There’s no doubt that players were also disappointed with last year’s All-Star Game. We all want to do a better job of providing competition and entertainment to our fans.”
Silver added that the league is evaluating whether to make the All-Star Game “not a traditional game format”.
– via Shams Charania, ESPN
While waiting to understand whether everything will be made official or not, we remind you that AtG – on the advice of Jalen Williams – has also put forward its proposal to improve the All-Star Game, a nice one-on-one tournament that takes into account the hottest rivalries in the NBA at the moment. To give you an idea, something like this (the pairings explained HERE):
