The NBA All-Star Game will look a little different this year, with the league altering the format and incorporating a tribute to Kobe Bryant
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Among the changes announced Thursday is that every quarter will turn into a mini-game for charity before an untimed fourth quarter, with a final target score determining the winner. The connection to Bryant is that the target score will be determined by the total points the team in the lead scored over the first three quarters, plus 24 -- the jersey number Bryant wore for the final decade of his career.
These changes were in the works before Sunday’s tragedy, and the league planned to end the game with a target score – possibly 30 or 40. Following Bryant’s death, the league decided to make 24 the target score. “We spent a lot of time considering the right target number to use for the fourth quarter,” Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations, told the Associated Press. “Through the events of this week it became clear to us that the only appropriate number for this season’s All-Star Game is 24.”
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