NBA All-Star Weekend Changes Format

The 2018 NBA All-Star game is the beginning of a new era where the respected captains, Lebron James and Stephen Curry, draft there starting five and reserves. Before the revealing of the two teams, Lebron stated that he plans on winning this game.

Before there was an All-Star draft, players from their rightful conferences were chosen by the votes from the fans and once chosen the stars then played for the conference that they are in whether the Eastern Conference or the Western Conference. For the longest the majority were pleased with the game because the teams were even for the most part when it came to the individual performances from each player during the regular season, but after the 2016-2017 season, a majority of all-stars from that particular season from the Eastern Conference teams shifted via trade or free agency signing over to Western Conference teams causing an unfair advantage given to the West.

The NBA, like all other major sports leagues, is looking to make All-Star weekend as interesting as possible.

"We collectively want to try to make All-Star weekend better for the fans," Chris Paul, President of the National Basketball Players Association and point guard for the Houston Rockets told reporters. "All the way around. Even in CBA talks and stuff like that, that was one of the things that the players, the owners and everybody was talking about. Trying to fix that, spice it up a little bit to keep it interesting."

Lebron’s starting lineup (point guard- center) includes Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Himself, Anthony Davis, and it was Demarcus Cousins, but due to injury either the newly acquired Andre Drummond or Kristaps Porzingis will be taking his spot.

Steph’s starting lineup includes Himself, James Harden, Demar Derozan, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Joel Embiid.

The All-Star game will be held February 18, 2018. Tune in on TNT and watch some of the greatest basketball players in the world go head to head in one of the most watched games ever.