In today’s Dub Hub:

The NBA isn’t done tinkering with its signature midseason showcase. After last year’s All-Star Game—hosted by the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco—drew mixed reviews, the league is once again changing the format.

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Per ESPN’s Shams Charania, the 2026 version of the NBA All-Star Game will introduce a round-robin style tournament featuring three squads of eight players: two representing the United States and one made up of international talent.

The league has long been searching for a format that can bring competitiveness back to its showcase event. This new format hopes to finally get the job done when it makes its debut at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles in 2026.

For more on this and other news around the NBA, here is our latest news round-up for Friday, September 5th:

Warriors News:Why Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler’s joint offseason workout matters for Warriors | NBC Sports Bay Area

The worry in bringing Butler into the Warriors’ locker room was if the big personalities of him and Green would clash. The opposite happened, at least in the first chapter. The next chapter appears to have begun with an even greater sense of commitment and understanding of each other.

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Draymond Green and Moses Moody participate in offseason pickup gameSiegel’s Scoop: Will Jonathan Kuminga, Josh Giddey follow Cam Thomas’ qualifying offer decision? | ClutchPoints

There haven’t been any indications suggesting that the Warriors are thinking of changing their offer, and unless they do so over the course of the next week, Kuminga is prepared to end talks and accept his qualifying offer, league sources said.

Valkyries clinch a playoff spot in their inaugural yearABC7’s Larry Beil challenges Warriors’ Quinten Post to a chess match | ABC7News

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Quinten Post is not just the Golden State Warriors center – he’s the NBA’s chess champion. Post won the inaugural Chesstival tournament back in July, collecting a $25,000 check to be donated to a charity of his choice.

ABC7 Sports Director Larry Beil loved playing chess in his younger years, and challenged the 7-footer to a match at Splash in Thrive City.

NBA News:Sources: NBA All-Star Game to have 2 USA teams, 1 World team | ESPN

The format for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game is likely to be a round-robin tournament consisting of three eight-player teams — two USA teams and one World team — sources told ESPN on Wednesday.

The NBA and the players’ union presented the format to the league’s competition committee on Wednesday, sources said. Governors, team executives and players discussed the format within the competition committee meeting, and the response was positive, sources said.

Comeback story by Team USA’s 2008 ‘Redeem Team’ immortalized in Springfield | NBA

However, the “Redeem Team” — which will be enshrined this weekend as a team entry in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame — might have had a heavier lift than that 1992 crew. That first group was asked merely to flex American basketball superiority on a stage where this nation had always sent amateurs. The world’s best national teams had advantages in development and continuity that were becoming too great to overcome with a hastily assembled collection of college kids every four years.

Steve Ballmer denies report that Clippers circumvented NBA’s salary cap [FULL INTERVIEW]In case you missed it at Golden State of Mind:What does Cam Thomas’ contract tell us about Jonathan Kuminga and the Warriors?

All of that likely leaves us right back where we started: with Kuminga happy to re-sign, but with the Warriors simply needing to sweeten the pot.

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