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The 2024 All-Star game drew criticism with both teams combining to score 397 points in Indianapolis and organisers were hoping a new format might help to bring back a competitive edge.<\/p>\n
Aside from making it a mini-tournament with semi-finals and final, one of the key changes was games being played on a first-to-40-points basis rather than across four quarters.<\/p>\n
MVP Curry was among those to praise the NBA for trying something new.<\/p>\n
“I think it was a good step in the right direction to reinvigorate the game in some way,” Curry said.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard was also on the winning side and echoed the thoughts of Curry.<\/p>\n
“I think they’re just looking for a more competitive game and trying to find ways to create that and it was a little bit more competitive than they have been the last few years,” Lillard said. <\/p>\n
“That’s the number one thing, to provide the entertainment and competitiveness on the floor, and I thought it was a little bit more of that.”<\/p>\n
However, Curry’s Golden State Warriors team-mate Draymond Green, who was working as a television analyst for the event, was critical of change.<\/p>\n
Asked to rate it on a scale, Green said, “Ten being the best? A zero. It sucks. Awful.”<\/p>\n
“You work all year to be an All-Star and you get to play up to 40 (points) and then you’re done,'” Green added on TNT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n