When the All-Star Game became unspectacle and gradually reduced to a chicken game, the NBA boldly reformed, and although the final effect is yet to be tested, the change is always worthy of recognition and encouragement.

On February 18, the 2018 NBA All-Stars will be played at Staples Arena in Los Angeles. On January 29, the NBA's official website officially announced that Raptors head coach Casey officially became the head coach of the All-Star James team, while Rockets head coach D'Antoni was confirmed to be the head coach of the Curry team.

Different from the previous All-Star Game East and West matchups, the 2018 NBA All-Star Team player voting and team formation model underwent a large-scale reform, with the aim of making the All-Star Game more interesting and stimulating fans' desire to participate and watch. Not long ago, James and Curry formed their own teams as captains, and they have formed enough topics, so this All-Star Game has not been hot.

Voting party rules have changed

As early as the end of the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, NBA President Xiao Hua mentioned that the intensity of the All-Star Game should be increased, and in the end, he chose to cancel the East-West confrontation from many reform plans, "We have a lot of ideas, such as letting the players play specific charity games, choose captains, and select lineups, and it will no longer be an East-West competition."

In the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, the voting rules for starters are still the same as last season's, with fans, media and players voting together, with fans voting for 50%, media and players accounting for 25% each, and substitutes selected by the league's 30 head coaches.

Not long ago, after a joint vote of fans, media and players, the starting list of the 2018 All-Star Game was released, with James, Antetokounmpo, Irving, DeRozan and Embiid starting in the East, and Curry, Durant, Cousins, Anthony Davis and Harden starting in the West. Among them, James became the vote king with 2638294 votes, Curry got 2379494 votes, ranking first among Western players, according to the grouping rules of this All-Star Game, James and Curry became captains respectively.

The biggest difference between this year's All-Star Game and previous ones is that the traditional East-West star-to-star clash model has been eliminated, and the player with the most fan votes from the East and West becomes the captain. Two All-Star captains select from all the All-Star players to form mixed teams to compete against each other.

James and Curry, as captains, exercise the right to pick and choose teams. The two captains first selected from eight other All-Star starters to form two starting lineups, and then from 14 All-Star substitutes. According to the rules, James got the most votes in the fan vote, so he was given the first choice, and when it came time to pick the bench player, it was Curry who picked the first player.

The mixed lineup is full of highlights

In the final selection process, the outside world has been calling for a live broadcast of the process, but due to many considerations, the NBA finally chose to announce the results directly. James selected Durant, Anthony Davis, Cousins, and Irving into his starting lineup, while Curry started with Harden, DeRozan, Antetokounmpo, and Embiid.

"I've been on the same team as Irving, and I think Durant can fit into any basketball system in the world, and he can always do what he wants. So I think our squad will work well and we have a good prospect. "Obviously, James enjoyed the way he was teamed up and felt he had the best possible team. Although the starting lineup of the James team has been fine-tuned recently, Cousins was reimbursed for the season due to a sudden injury, and NBA commissioner Xiao Hua designated Paul George to enter the James team as a substitute, but it is undeniable that the lineups of the two teams James and Curry this year are full of highlights.

As for the James team, James and Durant, the two best stars in the NBA today, teamed up for the first time in the All-Star, in addition, James also selected Irving as the starting team of his team, and the two became teammates again after an unhappy breakup last summer, and reorganized the former Cavaliers Big Three with Love. "I can think of a lot of memories of being with them as an All-Star, when Irving was on the list of options and he was one of the best point guards, so it was an easy choice for me to make." James said.

Because James chose Durant, Curry, Durant, Thompson, and Green, the Warriors Big Four, who were originally selected as All-Stars, were separated, and Curry is still teammates with Thompson and Green, but he has to become opponents with Durant. In addition, Curry has several sets of partners, DeRozan and Lowry are from the Raptors, and Towns and Butler are both playing for the Timberwolves, so this staffing can produce excellent chemistry. Xu Bangyin