Bracket, team names revealed to new tournament format

NBA has announced semi-final matchups and team names for its new four-team format at All-Star Game on Sunday 16 February at 1 p.m. 20 one (tnt).

Charles Barkley’s “Global Stars” will take on Kenny Smith’s “Young Stars” in the first matchup, while Shaquille O’Neals “also” face Candace Parker’s “Rising Stars” in the second matchup.

The first team to 40 points wins the game and advances to the final.

O’NEAL already places bets with parks, confident in his team:

While an all-star draft is nothing new, the NBA turns to a mini tournament this year to spice up the event. The 24 All-Stars were Divided into groups of eightWith Shaq, Chuck and Kenny, who serve as the three honorary general leaders, while Parker will be honorary for the Rising Stars Champion team that will act as the fourth team in the tournament.

However, the voting process for All-Stars remained intact, with five “starters” from each conference determined by fans (50 percent of the vote), current NBA players (25 percent) and media members (25 percent).

The All-Star Game Prize Pool will be $ 1.8 million, with each winning player receiving $ 125,000, while players on runners-up will receive $ 50,000 and players from third and fourth place will earn $ 25,000.

Kevin Hart will act as Emcee for the event, the first time the All-Star game has had an Emcee.

NBA believed that the need to make changes after last year’s All-Star game was greeted with Bad reviews.

“I’ve talked to Steph (Curry) and many of the perennial All-Stars, none of them were proud of what you saw last year,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver at KNBR (H/T Eva Geltheim by si.com). “I think they all acknowledge that the fans want to be entertained by the style of basketball they look at