A big focus of the discussion was how Silver has been too concerned about pleasing the players, to the detriment of fan enjoyment. He thinks they're on the verge of just losing the All Star Game entirely and thinks that would be a mistake, since there are possible versions of it that fans would like.

I wonder if the players would be interested in this format. Probably not. 

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Technically, in my scenario Steph would likely have gotten one of those two remaining spots, but I take your point. An easy enough fix for that would be only having it apply to the teams that were represented in the game, which could be another incentive for guys to actually play, or something like that.