{"id":428982,"date":"2025-02-17T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428982"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:20:25","slug":"new-nba-all-star-game-format-draws-mixed-player-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-nba-all-star-game-format-draws-mixed-player-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"New NBA All-Star Game format draws mixed player reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1771\">The <strong data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1639\">NBA\u2019s new All-Star Game format<\/strong>, featuring a <strong data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1697\">four-team, single-elimination tournament<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"1703\" data-end=\"1727\">a target score of 40<\/strong>, received <strong data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1755\">mixed reviews<\/strong> from players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"2046\">Many <strong data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1815\">criticized the frequent stoppages<\/strong>, including <strong data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"1841\">Trae Young<\/strong>, who said, <em data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"1937\">&#8220;I didn\u2019t like it at all. The breaks were too long, and the games were too short.&#8221;<\/em> <strong data-start=\"1938\" data-end=\"1965\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> agreed but admitted the game felt <strong data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2020\">more competitive<\/strong> than in previous years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2328\"><strong data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2065\">Stephen Curry<\/strong>, who won <strong data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2091\">All-Star MVP<\/strong>, defended the format: <em data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2158\">&#8220;We needed something fresh and different.&#8221;<\/em> However, <strong data-start=\"2168\" data-end=\"2186\">Draymond Green<\/strong> was frustrated by the inclusion of <strong data-start=\"2222\" data-end=\"2246\">Rising Stars players<\/strong>, arguing that <strong data-start=\"2261\" data-end=\"2325\">Sunday\u2019s All-Star Game should be reserved for top NBA talent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2518\">Despite missing <strong data-start=\"2346\" data-end=\"2406\">LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Anthony Edwards<\/strong>, the event ended with <strong data-start=\"2429\" data-end=\"2478\">Team OGs defeating Chuck\u2019s Global Stars 41-25<\/strong>, led by <strong data-start=\"2487\" data-end=\"2515\">Curry and Damian Lillard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2520\" data-end=\"2536\"><em data-start=\"2520\" data-end=\"2534\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new tournament-style All-Star Game received criticism for excessive stoppages but was praised for adding competitiveness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":428983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Gj97vPkXQAAGXUl.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428982"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428982"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428982"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}