It was better than the year before, but it wasn’t actually good.
That was NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s assessment of this year’s new All-Star format of a mini-tournament of four teams, which echoes the conventional wisdom coming out of the weekend in San Francisco. Add in some extended breaks during the broadcast — including during the championship game of the new tournament — and it didn’t work, which is why that format will be one-and-done.
“I thought this was a little better, but it was a miss,” Silver said Thursday during a press conference announcing the NBA’s working toward a European league.