{"id":439947,"date":"2025-04-29T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439947"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:31:19","slug":"nba-considering-international-all-star-game-format-starting-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-considering-international-all-star-game-format-starting-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA considering international All-Star Game format starting in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1420\">The <strong data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1214\">NBA<\/strong> is exploring a major <strong data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1253\">All-Star Game<\/strong> change, planning to shift toward international competition. Talks with the NBPA and NBC aim to create matchups between players from the USA and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1601\">Commissioner Adam Silver pointed out that the 2026 event in Los Angeles will align with the Winter Olympics. &#8220;It\u2019s a huge opportunity to highlight global basketball,&#8221; Silver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"1770\">Stars like <strong data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1639\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1662\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1684\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> have already voiced support for a USA vs. World format, boosting the plan\u2019s momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1786\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44916403\/nba-discussing-new-international-format-all-star-game\"><em data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1786\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA is discussing a new All-Star Game format, potentially setting up a USA vs. World competition as early as 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"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-439947","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\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439947","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=439947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439947"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439947"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439947"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}