All-Star Game To Have New Format With Kobe Tribute Target Score To End Game

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:07 pm

The NBA has announced major changes to the format for the 2020 All-Star Game.

They will turn every quarter into a mini-game for charity before an untimed final quarter with a target score that will decide the winning team.

Scores will be reset back to 0-0 at the start of the second and third quarters before being restored to begin the fourth quarter.

The team that wins the All-Star Game will be the first to reach the target score first, which will be determined by the total points the team in the lead scored in the first three quarters plus 24 in tribute to Kobe Bryant.

“We spent a lot of time considering the right target number to use for the fourth quarter,” said Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president for league operations. “Through the events of this week it became clear to us that the only appropriate number for this season’s All-Star game is 24.”

The target score concept is something that the NBA has been considering since last summer.

Via Tim Reynolds/Associated Press

Air Apparent · Post #2 » by **Air Apparent** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:32 pm

the lengths we have to go to to get these new stars to compete...smh

dzumaal · Post #3 » by **dzumaal** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:54 pm

Yeah, not going to watch.

alienpick · Post #4 » by **alienpick** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:12 pm

Oh God, You actually made it WORSE. Unbelievable. Yeah, fans really want to watch some convoluted stupid game.

How about the players actually have some pride and play for pride? If they can't then cut them from the damn team, they dotn deserve to be all-stars if they aren't going to act like it. SMH.

GooniousMaximus · Post #5 » by **GooniousMaximus** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:18 pm

dafuq? Kobe immortalization and mourning aside...this makes zero sense. play and call it like a regular game.

bratan · Post #6 » by **bratan** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:44 pm

so, basically the team with the most points through 4 quarters wins the game and the 4th quarter will most likely end up being shorter than usual. seems like an unnecessarily complicated way of doing that.

kobe is probably looking down from the sky wondering wth these morons are doing.

omerome · Post #7 » by **omerome** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:22 am

...and this is why the NBA is trash right now.

Just play the game the way it was meant to be played. Stop with these stupid gimmicks.

Post #8 » by **TheCage4** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:55 am

The Silver think tank really burned the candle on both ends on this brain child.

The best we can do is not tune in.

alienpick · Post #9 » by **alienpick** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:58 am

bratan wrote:so, basically the team with the most points through 4 quarters wins the game and the 4th quarter will most likely end up being shorter than usual. seems like an unnecessarily complicated way of doing that.

kobe is probably looking down from the sky wondering wth these morons are doing.

Kobe and David Stern. Stern probably wants to wring Lurch’s (Silver) skinny neck.

J-Mezzy · Post #10 » by **J-Mezzy** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:25 am

Just rename the all star game to the Kobe Tribute game and the players will have no choice but to compete out of respect. Especially if the funds go to the Mamba foundation

Trailbreaker · Post #11 » by **Trailbreaker** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:39 pm

Did the guys running NASCAR take over the NBA? Such complicated rules for something that should be simple.