NBA commissioner expects All-Star draft to be televised next season

Speaking with ESPN's Ramona Shelburne from Staples Center in Los Angeles,
Silver said:

"When we sat with the union and we came up with this format, we all agreed,
let's not turn something that's 100 percent positive into a potential negative
to any player. But then ... maybe we're overly conservative, because then we
came out of there, and the players were, 'We can take it. We're All-Stars.
Let's have a draft.' So it sounds like we're going to have a televised draft
next year."

Under the new format, implemented this year, fans voted for the five starters
from each conference, as they had in the past. But from there, the top vote
getter from each conference (LeBron James and Steph Curry this season) drafted
teams from a pool of the other starters and the reserves selected by NBA head
coaches.

But the draft itself was not televised, which led to speculation as to which
players were drafted first and which were drafted last.

All-Star DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors was much more up-front with his
opinion about showing the draft:

"Televise it," he said. "Give the people what they want to see. I think
everybody wants to see it. At the end of the day, every single person that
gets picked, you are an All-Star, so it doesn't matter where you really go, so
I think televise it."

According to ESPN, James did reveal the order of the starters he selected:
Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, former Cleveland teammate Kyrie Irving and
DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins missed the game because of a season-ending Achilles
injury.

James was named MVP of the game Sunday night after his team topped Curry's
team 148-145. He scored the game-winning bucket with less than 35 seconds left
in the game.

--Field Level Media