{"id":130146,"date":"2017-10-03T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130146"},"modified":"2017-10-03T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:02:40","slug":"nba-implements-new-all-star-game-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130146","title":{"rendered":"NBA implements new All-Star Game format"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryContent\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44628\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nbalogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"122\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The\u00a0NBA\u00a0is scrapping the East against West format for its All-Star Game and will have captains pick teams this season.<\/p>\n<p>The league says Tuesday that the leading vote-getter from each conference will choose teams from the pool of players who were voted as starters and reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The change will begin with this season&#8217;s game in Los Angeles on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Players and league officials have been eager to inject new interest in the often defense-absent game, and\u00a0NBA\u00a0Players Association President Chris Paul says improving the game was a &#8220;priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They chose a format that has been used by the NFL and NHL for what will be the first\u00a0NBA\u00a0All-Star game that doesn&#8217;t pit the Eastern Conference against the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The\u00a0NBA\u00a0is scrapping the East against West format for its All-Star Game and will have captains pick teams this season. The league says Tuesday that the leading vote-getter from each conference will choose teams from the pool of players who were voted as starters and reserves. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130148,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146\/revisions\/130148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}