NBA: All-Star Game: No more East versus West

The All-Star Game in the NBA will be held in a new format in the future.As the league announced on Tuesday, the change will not lead to a classic duel between the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference.

Twelve players are still elected per conference, 50 percent of whom are elected by fans, 25 percent by current players and a further 25 percent by media representatives.

The two players with the most votes in their respective conference are then the captains.They may alternately choose the eight remaining starters – no matter which conference they belong to.In the previous year, for example, this would have been LeBron James and Stephen Curry.

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The respective head coaches select the 14 reserve players.I’m thrilled with what the players and the league have done to improve the All-Star game,”said Chris Paul of the Houston Rockets, president of NBPA:” We want to offer the fans an entertainment show in Los Angeles.

How the All-Star Draft will look exactly is not yet determined.The announcement of the starters will be made on 18.January, on 23.The reserve players will follow on January 1.The All-Star Game will take place in February 2018.