Would 1-on-1 tournament fix NBA All-Star Game? Unrivaled showed it can work… under certain conditions

after that Another weekend is disappointing in the American Professional League, all starsThere was another round of talking about how to “fix” the annual league show. The final conclusion may be that there is no way for the league to force the players to participate in the events or go out in an exhibition game during one break of this season, but that will not prevent everyone from putting their ideas.

The latest in some traction is a 1-one-1 championship. In fact, it was said that the league discussed one million dollar prize, According to the sports office sport.

During the weekend in all stars in San Francisco, Rachel Nichols asked a number of players if they were interested in such an event. The answers seem to be very positive.

“Yes, of course ,” Anttokounmpo He said. “If I have the opportunity to play individually with anyone, I would like to do it. Anything can make the weekend more exciting, more fun, for viewers, wages and players, I would like to love to participate.”

Anthony Edwards He said, “Hell yes”, when asked if he would participate James Harden The idea of ​​”fire” is called. Damian Lilly He added that “all real competitors will be open to them,” which Kerry Erfing Repeat.

Perhaps the most prominent answer came Donovan Mitchell. “I think it will be a drug,” Mitchell said. “Do I think we’ll do that? I don’t know.”

peerlessThe Breanna Stewart, Naphesa Collier 3-on-3 ON-3 ON-3 Offa, which was co-founded by Breanna Stewart and Naphesa Collier. There were two main reasons for his success: Star Buy-in and a very desirable reward.

Including those who ended up with an injury and lost the first round match by default, the Unvleded Championship was characterized by five players from WNBA (out of 10) and 12 stars from the 2024 season. The only reason that made these numbers was not higher is that many stars , Including Aja Wilson and Caitlin Clarak, they don’t play this season.

While Coller finished winning the championship, there were some inevitable results, including Stewart in the first round by the rising striker Alia Edwards. Nobody actually believed that Stewart suddenly is a bad player, but there were many jokes that were made at their expense in the initial effects. Will the American Professional League players be ready to deal with a similar embarrassing moment?

Moreover, I laid unparalleled a set of $ 350,000 prizes on the table, which included $ 200,000 for the winning player. The normal Max contract for the upcoming 2025 WNBA season is 214,466 dollars, and – with a warning that some players are uncompromising – there are only 25 players achieving $ 200,000 or more this summer.

Of course, it is much easier to achieve a legitimate financial incentive when the WNBA salaries remain in the six low numbers. The equivalent of the American Professional League will be from the highest salary of 25 to the 2025-26 season about 45 million dollars, and no one puts this type of class in the 1st championship on 1. Is the award that was reported at a value of one million dollars enough to tempt players who make more than That is in two games for the ordinary season? Maybe not. If they can reach a range of $ 5-10 million, this may be a different story.

For actual games, there will be a room for a lot of discussion about the rules. Unparalleled by 2S and 3S to 11, except for a series of the best three championships, which achieved a score of nine, and there were complaints that the games went very quickly. Likewise, only one goalkeeper reached the semi -finals, where BIGS, especially the multi -use attackers, dominated. Some should be taken to prevent players such as antetokounmpo from simply overcoming everyone, for example.

However, all of these concerns are secondary to get at least 10-15 big names for commitment. As he showed unparalleled, you do not need every great player, but you need a few legal stars and a number of stars to fill the bow and create a real politicization.

If the American Professional League is able to achieve this, everyone will control, regardless of coordination or rules. If not, you can get the best designed championship and no one will care.

Unfortunately, the last record of NBA Stars indicates that we should not expect them to appear for one championship on 1 in the future-at least not widely. In the past decade, there were only two players who were in the past all the stars, Dwight Howard (2020) and Gilin Brown (2024), participated in the Slam Dunk competition. Steve Curry You did not participate even in the 3 -year 3 -year competition when Warriors They were hosting the celebrations.

It would be great that the best American professional league players suddenly reflected a path and suddenly in one exciting competition on 1, but no one should breathe.