When the new format was announced for the NBA All-Star Game — leading vote-getters from each conference as captains, then picking sides from the entire pool — my best friend said, “Oh, this could be really bad if they make it public. It’d be like down at the park. No one wants to be the last guy picked.”
Word probably will get out somehow, but the league has said there are no plans to televise or publicize the order of picks. There was the concern that picks would be made based on friendships rather than merit and that feelings would be hurt.