'Joke' All-Star format will be tweaked

NEW YORK - NBA commissioner Adam Silver promises format changes to make the NBA All-Star Game more competitive before next year's edition in Los Angeles after a high-scoring affair last month.

"We will change it by next year. It shouldn't be playoff intensity, but the guys should be playing," Silver said at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sports Analytics Conference in Boston.

Silver said Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul, the National Basketball Players Association president, spoke with him about the need for changes after almost no defensive moves were made in the Western Conference's 192-182 victory over the Eastern Conference at New Orleans.