- NBA announces All-Star tournament plan for this season: 4 teams, 3 games, 1 night The Associated Press
- NBA officially announces 2025 All-Star Game mini-tournament format featuring ‘Inside the NBA’ analysts Awful Announcing
- Kevin Durant blasts new NBA All-Star Game format, calls for return to East-West game: ‘I absolutely hate it’ CBS Sports
- ‘I hate it’: NBA players skeptical of new one-day All-Star Game tournament The Guardian
- NBA adopts pickup style tournament to replace All-Star game: Will it revive the league’s beleaguered All-Star weekend? Yahoo Sports