The NBA is tweaking its All-Star format to try and add more interest. The league is abandoning the standard Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference format and will instead have two captains choose up sides.
The player with the most All-Star votes in each conference will serve as captain and take turns picking the rest of their roster from the pool of other All-Stars. With that format, the Cavaliers LeBron James and Warriors' Kevin Durant would have been team captains last year. The 2018 NBA All-Star Game will be played February 18th in Los Angeles.