NBA All-Star: Steph Curry wins MVP and leads Shaq’s OGs to All-Star title

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.

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.

MVP Curry was among those to praise the NBA for trying something new.

“I think it was a good step in the right direction to reinvigorate the game in some way,” Curry said.

Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard was also on the winning side and echoed the thoughts of Curry.

“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.

“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.”

However, Curry’s Golden State Warriors team-mate Draymond Green, who was working as a television analyst for the event, was critical of change.

Asked to rate it on a scale, Green said, “Ten being the best? A zero. It sucks. Awful.”

“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.