The NBA is returning to a traditional format for this season's All-Star Game. The league announced on Wednesday that the game would return to a matchup of the…
Actually a bit sad to see the ELAM ending go, thought it made it much more interesting at the end. I liked the players drafting as well, think people forgot how sick of the same matchup people were with East vs West and drafting added a bit of fun to the process.
Hopefully the players are incentivized to play hard for all 4 quarters. Otherwise, we’ll have to witness the same old coasting regardless of any format
People keep saying “Elam” but I couldn’t find much in the article on what the changes really were from the normal East vs West I’m used to. Can someone please fill me in on what those changes are?
So starting with the 2020 all star game they switched how the 4th quarter works. Basically whatever the leading teams score was at the end of the 3rd was they took that +24 (in honor of Kobe) and that was the “Target Score”.
Whichever team reached that score first won, the benefit is that each game ends on a game winning shot and you can’t just run the clock out like a normal game.
I personally thought it was more interesting but seems like they’re trying to go back to “traditional basketball” this year based on Adam Silvers comments.