The NBA will not bring back its All-Star Game mini-tournament next season.

Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the format used last month — a four-team tournament made up of 24 NBA All-Stars and another team of rookies and sophomores, all playing to a target score of 40 points — “was a miss.”

The game is shifting to NBC next season as part of the league’s new broadcast deal, and Silver said the league and the network are talking about what may work. The league tried something new this season with hopes of sparking some competitiveness, which the game has lacked for years.

“We’re back to the drawing board,” Silver said.

James Harden had 29 points, six rebounds and six assists, Kawhi Leonard scored 27 points as the Clippers prevented the Knicks from clinching a playoff berth with a 126-113 victory late Wednesday night in New York.

Norman Powell added 19 points and Ivica Zubac finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Clippers, who improved to 41-31 and tied Golden State for sixth place in the Western Conference, the final guaranteed postseason place.

Karl-Anthony Towns had 34 points and 13 rebounds for the Knicks, who were looking to follow Cleveland and Boston and become the third team to wrap up a spot in the East.

The Knicks started impressively on the second night of a back-to-back, going 8 for 9 en route to an 18-5 lead. But the Clippers blew by them with a 16-3 run to end the third quarter and broke it open in the fourth.

LeBron James had a buzzer-beating tip-in to cap a 10-point fourth quarter, Luka Doncic scored 34 points as the Lakers beat the Pacers 120-119 on Wednesday night in Indianapolis.

James extended his NBA-record streak of 10 or more points to 1,283 games — barely. He was 0 for 6 with three points through the first three quarters. He finished with 13 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists.

Doncic also had seven rebounds, seven assists and made six 3-pointers. Austin Reaves added 24 points as the Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak to move into a tie with Memphis for the fourth seed in the Western Conference.

Bennedict Mathurin had 23 points to lead Indiana. Tyrese Haliburton had a season-high 18 assists and 16 points, the last of which gave Indiana a 119-118 lead with 42.2 seconds left. The Lakers led the entire second and third quarters and were still up 118-112 with 1:44 to go. But Haliburton’s three-point play capped a 7-0 run that gave Indiana the lead. Both teams then had empty possessions and Doncic missed a midrange floater in the waning seconds, setting up James for the winner.

Jordan Goodwin agreed to a standard two-year NBA contract with the Lakers on Thursday, ensuring the reserve two-way guard will be eligible for the NBA postseason.

The Lakers waived Cam Reddish to make room for Goodwin, who has played his way into regular minutes over the past two months.

GOLF

Charley Hull ended her long and active day without any blood seeping through her sock, only a bogey-free card of 9-under 63 that gave her a one-shot lead over Nanna Koertz Madsen in the opening round Thursday at the Ford Championship in Chandler, Ariz.

Nelly Korda, returning to work after skipping the Asia swing, was among those playing in the afternoon and trying to catch up to Hull.

Koertz Madsen also had nine birdies, offset by one bogey on the par-5 fifth. One of her birdies was a bonus, a bunker shot on the 10th hole that she felt would have gone 8 feet by the hole except that it hit the pin and dropped for a surprise birdie.

Brooke Henderson of Canada and Sei Young Kim were among eight players at 65 on a day of low scoring.

NHL

Leo Carlsson scored twice, Jackson LaCombe had a goal and an assist as the Ducks beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Wednesday night in Anaheim.

Nikita Nesterenko, Cutter Gauthier and Mason MacTavish also scored for the Ducks, Alex Killorn had a pair of assists and John Gibson made 23 saves.

David Pastrnak and Morgan Geekie had goals for Boston while Joonas Korpisalo had 31 stops.

The Philadelphia Flyers fired coach John Tortorella on Thursday with nine games left in another losing season for a franchise that hasn’t been in the playoffs since 2020.

The Flyers are last in the Metropolitan Division at 28-36-9 for 65 points under the notoriously brusque Tortorella. The Flyers suffered their sixth straight loss Tuesday, 7-2 to Toronto.

Tortorella, who won a Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004, said after the game he was not “really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season, where we’re at right now. But I have to do a better job. So this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end.”

The Flyers named Brad Shaw the interim coach, starting with Thursday’s game against Montreal.

MISCELLANY

The WNBA’s Sparks will retire Candace Parker’s No. 3 jersey at halftime of the team’s game against the Chicago Sky on June 29.

Parker, a seven-time WNBA All-Star, helped the franchise win its third WNBA championship in 2016 and she earned Finals MVP honors that year. She played 13 seasons with the team that drafted her first in 2008.

Novak Djokovic, gunning for his seventh Miami Open title, dispatched American Sebastian Korda 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) Thursday in one hour, 24 minutes in a quarterfinal match that was postponed from Wednesday night. Djokovic advanced to today’s semifinals against Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov.

In the first women’s semifinal, No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka routed sixth-seeded Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-2 in 71 minutes to advance to her first Miami Open final.

Red Bull dropped Liam Lawson as the teammate of Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen after just two rounds of the season and replaced him with Yuki Tsunoda. Lawson had not previously driven a full F1 season and struggled immediately. The New Zealander did not score any points, crashed out of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and qualified in last place for both the Chinese Grand Prix and its sprint race.

Mikaela Shiffrin smoothly navigated a bumpy course to easily win the women’s slalom Thursday at the World Cup finals at Sun Valley, Idaho.

The first-run leader, Shiffrin found another burst to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 45.92 seconds and beat Lena Duerr of Germany by 1.13 seconds. Andreja Slokar of Slovenia took third.

Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway clinched the season-long slalom title Thursday by taking fourth in a race won by teammate Timon Haugan to close out the World Cup finals. Kristoffersen held off Swiss racer Loic Meillard in the standings.