NBA All-Star restores original east-west conference format
The NBA announced that the NBA All-Star Game to be held in Indianapolis on February 18 next year will restore the original Eastern and Western Conference format, and 12 players will be selected from the Eastern and Western Conferences.
This change ends the captaincy system in the All-Star Draft for the past six seasons, in which the captains of the two teams were determined through fan voting of each team’s five starters.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said: “This year’s theme is back to basketball.”
This year’s All-Star Game will no longer set a target score in the fourth quarter and will return to the standard four quarters of 12 minutes each.
“We’re looking at some possible format changes, maybe going back to something more traditional in terms of how the team is presented,” Adam Silver told ESPN’s “First Take” last week.
Adam Silver added: “A lot depends on our players and team, the importance to the fans, we don’t expect the intensity of the playoffs. But we want to give our fans a competitive game . ”
