What is the format for the 2025 NBA All Star Game?
It isn’t popular with players, and fans are, at best, skeptical, but the NBA pushed ahead with a new four-team tournament format in a desperate attempt to inject defense and real competition into the All-Star Game. Adam Silver is on a quest to save the All-Star Game.
The new format divides the 24 All-Star players into three teams of eight, with those teams drafted by the “Inside the NBA” trio of Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny “The Jet” Smith. Let’s be clear: This “draft” came off as obviously staged to get pre-determined teams: Shaq’s team of veterans, Smith’s team of young stars, and Barkley’s group of international players (the best sign this draft was staged: When did Barkley become the big supporter of global basketball?).
The fourth team is “Team C” — with the Spurs Stephon Castle and the Lakers’ Dalton Knecht — the winners of Friday Night’s Rising Stars game.
Those teams are dropped a straight-up four-team tournament bracket with target score games. In the first two games, the teams will play first-to-40. The two winning teams then will compete in a championship game to 25.
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