The format for the 2026 NBA All-Star game is likely to be a round-robin tournament that consists of three eight-Khiladi teams-two USA teams and a world team. Sutras told ESPN on Wednesday.
Sources said that the NBA and the players’ union presented the draft to the League Competition Committee on Wednesday. Sources said that governors, team officials and players discussed the format within the meeting of the competition committee, and the response was positive.
Sources said that two USA teams and one world squad will play each other in a 12-minute quarter game.
2026 All-Star Game Los Angeles will be played at Intuit Dome, new home La clippersOn 15 February. The game, which will be aired on NBC, will begin from Sunday evening to Sunday afternoon.
Last year’s format for NBA All-Star Game-A Four-Team, Single-Eunuration Tournament, with a target score of 40 points for each round- Drew mixed reviewMany players raised the issue with a break during the Games and in between.
Earlier this year, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that “it is not lost on us” that the 2026 all-star game will be played between the Winter Olympics as well as at the place of 2028 for the summer games and was in place for the summer games. There is an international twist for the idea of the game,
The NBA says that about 70% of the players in the league are Americans, which means that it will be easy for international players to create an all-star roster in the US vs. world-style competition.
Silver said in April, “It presents a big opportunity for us to do something with an international competition rather than traditional all-star formats, which we have used.”
Michael C of ESPN. Wright and Associated Press contributed to this report.
