Next year's NBA All-Star Game will feature a "USA versus the World" format, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on Wednesday.

The move comes after last February's revamped tournament-style format with celebrity-picked rosters was seen as a flop by players and drew relatively low US television ratings.

Asked on Fox Sports One about having a USA against the World format for the elite-level contest, the first word out of Silver's mouth was "Yes."

"Next year, as part of our new media deal, the All-Star Game returns to NBC and it so happens that next season will be smack in the middle of the Winter Olympics," Silver said.

"So the game will be on NBC and the very day we're on, the lead-in will be Winter Olympic events and coming out of the All-Star Game -- which is now going to be in the after

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