The final score of the 2017 All-Star Game was 192-182. Not only was there not much defense played, there was
not much competitiveness displayed from either side. Speaking to ESPN’s Rachel
Nichols, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said to look for changes in the way the
game is set up moving forward:
I promise this time that next year’s will be different. I think we all
recognize, and we talked about it at last year’s All-Star, we’ve gotten to the
point where everyone seemed to agree it needed to be more competitive. And by
everyone, I mean including the players. Chris Paul, who’s president of the
union, he was the first to say to me the day after the game — and he wasn’t
playing in that game — let’s get together and do something about this.
And we recognize we don’t want our players to be playing at a Finals pace where
they could risk injury, or anything else. But there’s somewhere on the spectrum
from where we are now and The Finals. So we’re tossing around all kinds of
ideas. Having players play for particular charities, picking team captains,
picking teams, maybe not making it just East vs. West, there’s a lot of great
ideas out there.
By the way, for our fans on Twitter and Facebook, send them in. We’re open to
new ideas. We’re gonna make a change. I can’t promise it will be better, but it
will be different.
