Another year, another new NBA\u00a0All-Star\u00a0Game\u00a0format.\u00a0But\u00a0could this\u00a0one\u00a0be different?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In its 75th edition,\u00a0the league has pitted the United States against the\u00a0rest of the\u00a0world, young versus old,\u00a0in an effort to\u00a0draw out the competitive juices that\u00a0the annual\u00a0showcase has\u00a0severely lacked in recent years.<\/p>\n
The teams are as follows: Team USA Stars, the youngest cohort of American players; Team USA Stripes, the older contingent; and Team World,\u00a0comprised\u00a0of international players.\u00a0See full rosters in the\u00a0blog\u00a0below.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The three squads will play a round-robin mini tournament consisting of four 12-minute games. Tipoff is Sunday at 5 p.m. ET \/ 2 p.m. PT (on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+) in Inglewood, Calif.<\/p>\n
Follow along with\u00a0Sportsnet\u2019s live blog as we break down all the big plays and notable moments\u00a0from\u00a0this intriguing new\u00a0All-Star Game format.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another year, another new NBA\u00a0All-Star\u00a0Game\u00a0format.\u00a0But\u00a0could this\u00a0one\u00a0be different?\u00a0\u00a0 In its 75th edition,\u00a0the league has pitted the United States against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-477604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}