SAN FRANCISCO -- After last year's NBA All-Star Game did a collective face-plant in Indianapolis, the NBA got together with its players -- including one of its standard-bearers in Stephen Curry -- to figure out what it could do to improve the league's signature midseason showcase.
The result was a reimagined format -- one Curry himself played a part in creating -- that turned one 48-minute game between two teams into three shorter games featuring four teams, culminating with All-Star MVP Curry and Team Shaq routing Team Chuck in the championship.