Silver's announcement sounds promising after the poor reception to the tournament structure applied to this year's All-Star Game. Whatever the format of the game, Silver's decision to pivot to a format with a global identity appropriately accommodates their media partner's broadcast plans for the Milano Cortina Games in Northeast Italy.

The NBA All-Star game will undergo a drastic change to its format, and Stephen A. Smith thinks it might eventually lead to the concept being scrapped.

Silver also said that he didn't "see really the benefit to reducing the number of games" in the regular season.