The NBA All-Star Game selection process "may be televised as soon as next year," according to Sam Amick of USA TODAY. Warriors G Stephen Curry said, "We’ve had a lot of discussion around that, and obviously there’s a lot of people in favor of watching (the selections) live, and there’s also people that understand the reasoning behind why it’s not this year. I'm sure as this new format unfolds, year after year, that'll happen." The reality is that the "decision to keep picks private was driven by the players" (USA TODAY, 1/25). NBA.com's David Aldridge asked, "Why on earth is the NBA not televising the newly formatted All-Star player Draft?" It is the part that "everyone on NBA Earth wants to see." Aldridge: "Who wouldn't tune in to that?" The league is "hiding behind some 'unfair to the players' drivel, when we all know its the powerful agents who represent their equally powerful All-Star clients who've whined behind the scenes, not wanting their guys to be embarrassed by not being picked first, or second, or fifth, or ninth, or not at all." If the league does not televise it, what was the "point of changing the format?" (NBA.com, 1/22).
