Xiao Hua admits defeat: NBA All-Star Restructuring, the United States plays against other countries

NBA All-Star Game is really hard to describe. In order to save it, the league also took great pains to select the captain, score the target, and even had a four-team melee this year in 2025... What's the result? When the data speaks, the ratings have fallen to the bottom and the reputation has become bad. Alliance President Xiao Hua said everything himself, two words - "failure". Hey, what I said is really not giving me a face.

No wonder, the All-Star Games have been really boring in the past few years. The exhibition match is not like an exhibition match, and there is no confrontation, it’s useless! The players seem to just go to play a card and go through the motions.

Now, seeing that the conventional methods are no longer available, the marketing department in the NBA has begun to think about new tricks again. I heard that they watched the NHL ice hockey game next door. The "national confrontation game" was very popular, and they just thought we would also have an international style? The people in "The Athletic" revealed that the league is really seriously considering making something similar, so that players no longer work on the east and west, but rather on the country or region.

How to do it specifically? It may be a simple and crude "Team America vs. Other World Teams" or it may be a few teams, divided by nationality or continent. Why are you mentioning this at this time? You see, there are more and more players in the league that are not local to the United States, with 125, accounting for almost 30%! This year's MVP is popular, Jokic (Serbia), Antetokounmpo (Greece), Alexander (Canada)... Do you dare to believe this lineup before? It feels like the beginning of a joke. It is true that alliances are becoming increasingly global.

And, the 2026 All-Stars will be held in Los Angeles, which is the basketball court of the 2028 Olympics. NBC will also broadcast the Winter Olympics at that time. League President Xiao Hua himself said that with the spirit of this international event, he wanted to think about a new competition system with the players' union and let the players play on behalf of their country or region. Look, I have thought of my name and take advantage of the Olympics to play a wave of "international confrontation".

From this point of view, this move is obviously trying to work hard on the global market. After all, which country doesn’t want to see its own stars show their faces in a “world war”? In the NHL next door, the ratings of the US and Canada finals exploded, and the NBA's all-star team was defeated. The NBA has always claimed to be an innovative league and loves to mess around. It is in line with their style if I imitate the NHL.

But I always wonder, is it to make the game look better, or just to chase more audiences and money? Although the defense in the previous All-Star Game was like air, at least everyone had a good time and was a bit of a performance. Now, for the sake of "competitiveness" and "save", we have forced all kinds of strange competition systems, but no one can buy it. It sounds quite igniting to let players play on behalf of the country, but can it really bring back those lost audiences? Or another "looking beautiful" solution? After all, what fans want to watch may not be a complicated match system, but a pure and passionate basketball, even an exhibition game. I have reservations about

. I hope they don't mess it up again this time, after all, All-Star Weekend was also a very anticipated day for a year.