By Pierre-Andréa Fraile | Sports journalist
An essential event of the NBA season, the All-Star Game once again disappointed many fans during its last edition with a high score. Adam Silver has also returned to the subject recently with comments that go down badly.
Just like the Christmas Games, Martin Luther King Day or even the playoffs, it appears as a ritual surrounded by a certain enthusiasm each year. However, All-Star Weekend is struggling more and more to create fervor over time. Indeed, while its legendary Dunk Contest seems to have lost its prestige, its culminating All-Star Game generates a little more frustration with each edition.
The 2024 vintage was unfortunately no exception to the rule. While several figures in the league were calling for a serious and suspenseful match, the 24 All-Stars preferred to offer an indigestible offensive festival to the taste of a majority of the NBA community. Its content and its lunar final score (211-186) have since led to a deep questioning in the upper echelons of the league.
Adam Silver’s controversial exit from the All-Star Game
Faced with the loss of interest of a large part of the fans, reflected in significantly declining television audiences, the All-Star Game must be reinvented to continue. An observation due to the lack of questioning from players, for whom the competitive aspect no longer seems relevant in this context. Commissioner Adam Silver has in any case shown himself to be somewhat resigned in recent hours on the air of CNN :
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Adam Silver : I think the younger players see it as a break and an opportunity to have fun in the middle of the season. We have about 1,300 ultra-competitive games in total in a season, and they view the All-Star Game differently. There is always a notion of entertainment and when I see the excitement that there was around the duel between Steph (Curry) and Sabrina (Ionescu), it makes me think.
Why not do things differently and make this event a celebration of basketball? We will consider the “Americans vs Internationals” format. In any case, we may have passed the stage where this match will truly be considered competitive, and this has already happened in other sports.
So many hypotheses and possible restructurings which, unsurprisingly, did not receive a very warm welcome on social networks:
Worst commissioner in sports
— Jack Smiff (@jacksmiff45) March 24, 2024
The worst manager of a sports league
For Adam Silver, it might be better to accept the fact that the All-Star Game will never again be as competitive as it once was. An announcement that Internet users, although witnesses of this trend, still have difficulty accepting.
2024-03-24 11:20:00
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