The NBA All-Star Game adopted its personal model of the “Elam Ending” beginning in 2020, and has caught with the format ever since. With the 2023 NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah that includes Team LeBron vs. Team Giannis, the winner will once more be determined by a goal rating and never a working clock through the fourth quarter.
Here’s how the NBA’s model of the Elam Ending works for the 2023 All-Star Game:
- Team LeBron and Team Giannis will play regular 12-minute intervals for the primary three quarters of the sport. With every new quarter, the rating restarts at 0-0, however the cumulative rating nonetheless issues in the long run. More on that in a minute.
- Team LeBron and Team Giannis are every enjoying for charities. The winner of every quarter will donate an enormous money prize to the charity they’re enjoying for. A complete of $750K can be donated on the night time.
- Here’s how the NBA defined every charity and its mission: “Team LeBron will play for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah, which creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Team Giannis will play for Raise the Future, which aims to decrease the number of youth in foster care and increase the chances of lifelong connection by providing trauma-healing services to young people and families.”
- The cumulative rating comes into play within the fourth quarter. At the beginning of the interval, the workforce that’s profitable the cumulative rating will add 24 factors to their whole, and that’s turns into the goal rating that can determine the sport. For instance: Let’s say Team LeBron leads 150-140 on the finish of three quarters. The goal rating can be set at 174 (150 + 24), and the primary workforce to hit 174 factors wins the sport. The NBA makes use of 24 as a option to honor Kobe Bryant.
The NBA All-Star Game’s system is barely completely different from the unique Elam Ending. In the unique Elam Ending, the sport clock is turned off on the first whistle with as much as 4 minutes remaining, and eight factors is added to the profitable workforce’s rating to create the goal rating.
Why does the NBA All-Star Game use a goal rating to determine winner?
The NBA needed to eradicate groups deliberately fouling on the finish of the All-Star Game to get the ball again. With a goal rating to determine the sport, the shedding workforce doesn’t have to foul to have a shot if it’s shut late: they only have to preserve getting stops on protection and scores on offense.
Another good thing about goal scoring is that each sport ends on a game-winning shot. The solely draw back is that may be a free throw, which is boring. Hopefully the refs swallow the whistles late.
2023 NBA All-Star Game: Start time, TV, methods to watch
Date: Sunday, Feb. 19
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
TV and streaming: TNT
DraftKings Sportsbook odds: Team LeBron -2.5