{"id":42916,"date":"2025-08-04T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42916\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:35:14","slug":"wed-do-an-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42916\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;d do an All-Star game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All-Star Game is back on the NBL\u2019s radar, with CEO David Stevenson confirming the League is very much open to its return, provided the top players are available to take part.<\/p>\n<p>The event has not been held since 2012, despite growing interest from fans and players. Any revival, however, will need perfect timing to make it a success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a perfect world, we\u2019d do an All-Star Game tomorrow,\u201d Stevenson said via NBL Now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt always comes down to scheduling. Where do we fit them in? Obviously, when you\u2019ve got HoopsFest and NBA games and EuroLeague games and now Ignite Cup, there\u2019s no obvious window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd clearly the FIBA breaks &#8211; we want to be able to support the Boomers or the Opals, and make sure the players can represent their country. So finding a window where we can do it properly, because there are lots of opportunities where we can do it &#8230; but we\u2019ve got to have the best players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it doesn\u2019t work unless you\u2019ve got the best players playing. And our schedule\u2019s pretty tight at the moment. We\u2019ve just got to find that right window.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Chris Goulding claimed MVP honours when South beat North over a decade ago, while the All-Star Game was a staple on the NBL calendar through the 1990s and mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Australians versus imports is pretty good,\u201d Stevenson added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know we\u2019ve tried different variations of that, but we\u2019ve just got to make sure if we do it, we\u2019ve got to do it well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/687451e40ce51cb263571662_681e823466fb3c3c5ee8dd7a_a6e0d0a0-c9da-4bd4-bf10-ca5514573639.webp.webp\" alt=\"1920x250 (2)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All-Star Game is back on the NBL\u2019s radar, with CEO David Stevenson confirming the League is very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-42916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}