{"id":132176,"date":"2025-09-04T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132176\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:11:13","slug":"nba-all-star-game-to-be-u-s-world-round-robin-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132176\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA All-Star Game to be U.S.-World round robin in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The format for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game \u201cis likely to be a round-robin tournament consisting of three eight-player teams &#8212; two USA teams and one World team\u201d &#8212; according to sources. The NBA and NBPA \u201cpresented the format to the league\u2019s competition committee\u201d yesterday. Sources said team governors, team executives and players \u201cdiscussed the format within the competition committee meeting, and the response was positive.\u201d The two USA teams and one World squad \u201cwould play each other in 12-minute quarter games.\u201d The 2026 All-Star Game, which will be played at Intuit Dome and aired on NBC, \u201cwill shift from a Sunday evening to a Sunday afternoon start time\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46150134\/sources-nba-all-star-game-2-usa-teams-1-world-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN.com, 9\/3<\/a>). The \u201cidea of having a simple U.S. vs. World game has also been talked about,\u201d but NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that \u201cwould be difficult simply because the league has more American players than it has international players.\u201d The league is about 70% American, 30% international, and that \u201cwould roughly be the same breakdown of All-Stars this coming season under the proposed plan\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-all-star-game-745960c6d165b87ce6480a837e8e31ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 9\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The format for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game \u201cis likely to be a round-robin tournament consisting of three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-132176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}