The NBA seeks to borrow one of the best NHL ideas in recent memory. The NBA commissioner Adam Silver Best players from around the worldAccording to athletics.
Silver – and president of the Operations Ligue Byron Spruell – made these comments to the sports editors of Associated Press on Monday.
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Silver pointed out that the star match next year would take place during the Winter Olympic Games, which inspired the NBA to think on an international scale.
“Our star match will return to NBC next season in the middle of their winter Olympic Games cover. Given the strong interest that we have seen in international basketball competitions, more recently at the Olympic Games in Paris, we discuss concepts with the association of players who focus on the NBA players representing their countries or their regions instead of the more traditional formats.”
Spruell said the League was trying to rely on the idea of ”we against the rest of the world”.
The NBA 2026 stars match is scheduled for February 15, 2026. The 2026 winter Olympic Games will take place between February 6 and February 22.
We do not know exactly what format the league will use if it decides to change. The NBA could simply hold a star match in which a team made up of players from the United States faces a team of the best international sport players.
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The NBA could also examine the adoption of the idea of playing the 4 NHL nations and transform the event into a mini-tournoi. Instead of holding their traditional stars match last season, the NHL organized a mini tournament in which the best players of four nations – the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland – all competed against each other over nine days.
Canada and the United States met in the championship, Canada being in the lead. The game attracted 9.3 million viewers, a major victory for the NHL.
The NBA could be looking for a similar victory. The money was Criticism of the league efforts To improve the game of stars, go so far as to call the 2025 “A Miss” event. Money changed the game of stars several times during his warrant as a commissioner, and finally settled on a Tournament with four teams In 2025, which lacked the bite of the model of confrontation of the 4 nations of the NHL.
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Silver was asked if the league would seek to imitate the new NHL All-Star game format in March. At the time, he said he was not sure that the idea made sense.
A month later, Silver apparently changed his mind. Given the apathy towards the current all-star game of the NBA and the media threw surrounding the confrontation of the 4 NHL nations, it would not be a shock to see the all-in NBA on international competition in 2026.
