The NBA basketball community had a range of opinions about this year’s recently-concluded and newly-formatted NBA All-Star weekend.
This year’s All-Star Game wasn’t even a single game: it was a mini-tournament featuring four teams (three with NBA All-Stars and one with G-League players), all of which had not a time limit, but a score limit of 40 points. Draymond Green said the format was “unfair” to players like Victor Wembanyama who played hard only to be on the court for relatively few minutes, and likened the G-League team’s inclusion to “watching the Olympic team play against a U-19 team.