2026 All Star News

All-Star Weekend: Silver outlines league fixes, expansion and Europe plans

NBA commissioner Adam Silver used All-Star Saturday to acknowledge rising tanking concerns and hint at potential changes to the draft lottery, note fines for teams that rested players, and discuss expansion prospects to 32 teams with possible new markets like Seattle and Las Vegas. He also touched on the Clippers salary-cap investigation and ongoing gambling probes, referenced near-term WNBA bargaining, and said NBA Europe is on track for a 2027-28 start with arena infrastructure plans.