The NBA is considering another change in its All-Star game format – there could be an international twist this time.

NBA League presidents Adam Silver and Byron Spruell both admitted Monday that the league is in talks with NBA Players Association and broadcast partner NBC and will replace the current format of the All-Star Game with international games next season.

“Our All-Star Game will return to NBC in the next season’s Winter Olympics,” Silver told Sports. “Given our strong interest in international basketball games, the most recent time was at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer, and we were discussing concepts with the Players Association that focused on NBA players representing their own country or region, rather than the more traditional formats we used in the past.”

Earlier Monday, Spruell told the Associated Press that the NBA was considering “a format that tends to be inclined toward this idea of ​​international game, to some extent that it has some understanding of what we think with the rest of the world.”

"Given their role, NBC is very inclined to it - so are we," Spruel added. "Hopefully do something new and different again, but excited about the possibility."

The 2026 All-Star Game will be held on February 15 at the Los Angeles Clippers’ new home, Intuit Dome. The game will air on NBC and will be transformed from Sunday night to Sunday afternoon start time, which will allow NBC to directly follow Milan's winter Olympics Olympics Olympics Prime Time to play in Milan.

"This is not losing us," Silver told the Associated Press on Monday, and the All-Star Game will be held at the Winter Olympics in the locations of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

“We’re going to be in the arena at Intuit, and the basketball game will be held at the 2028 Olympics,” Silver said. “So, I think all of these factors, when they’re together, give us an opportunity to do something in the international competition, rather than the traditional All-Star format we use.”

Several NBA star players — including Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Wembanyama and Draymond Green — expressed their support for international games earlier this year during the All-Star weekend this season.

The NBA also announced last month that it won't bring back the mini-game format used in the All-Star Game this season. In announcing the announcement, Silver called the mini game “Miss,” adding that the league “is not creating an All-Star experience that we can be proud of, our players can be proud of.”

The NBA said about 70% of the players in the league are American, meaning international players are more likely to be an All-Star roster in the US vs. World Series.

But Antetokounmpo, Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Pascal Siakam and Alperen Sengun are all All-Stars this season, and Luka Doncic is almost always an All-Star lock. Karl-Anthony Towns plays internationally for the Dominican Republic (his mother's home) - so the potential international roster will use these eight players as a base.

"There are more players in the United States than in the rest of the world," Jokic, of Serbia's three-time MVP, said earlier this year. "I think there are talented players in Europe and the rest of the world, but most of the players are from the United States."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.