How to relaunch the All-Star Game? For years, Adam Silver and the NBA have groped, irreparably colliding with the lack of players, who no longer really want to get tired …
If he generated huge lengths and a lack of rhythm, the tournament set up this year in San Francisco this year has made it possible to find a little intensity and a game closer to that of a real basketball meeting. But the big league knows that the best way to push players to play is to generate rivalries.
According to Business Journal Sportsthe idea of the “thematic” teams implemented by Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, with “Old Americans” (OGS), “young Americans” (Young Stars) and “International” (Global Stars) seems to have liked the league, which could however change the fourth team.
The “Almost stars” as the fourth team?
Instead of joining the winners of the “Rising Stars Challenge”, the NBA and NBC, which will broadcast the All-Star Game from next season, would have discussed the idea of joining a team of “snubbed”!
In addition to the 24 traditional All-Stars, there could therefore be a fourth team of eight “almost all-stars”. This year, for example, we could have found Domantas Sabonis, Lamelo Ball, Tyrese Maxey, Tyrese Haliburton or Devin Booker, who had also asked for the number of players selected.
If these players are only considered all-stars in the event of a victory during the tournament, we can very well imagine the motivation and the rivalry that the idea could generate.
What revive the event, or simply more more complexity … and make it completely illegible?
