NEW YORK >> 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 that played their way in by winning the Rising Stars event on All-Star Friday, all the All-Star matchups playing untimed games to a target score of 40 points — “was a miss.”

“We’re not there in terms of creating an All-Star experience that we can be proud of and our players can be proud of,” Silver said.

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.

There was one particular element that flopped from a competitive standpoint this year, that being a long stoppage in play — almost 20 minutes — during the All-Star championship game to pay tribute to the TNT broadcast team that was involved in the airing of the game for the final time.

“It was well-intentioned,” Silver said. “But I think the long stoppage in play in that final game didn’t work for anyone.”

NBA and FIBA to take next steps >> The NBA may soon be significantly expanding its presence in European basketball, in the form of partnering with FIBA on a new league that the sides have been talking about for many years.

Specifics are few, with the initial target — for now — being that it would be a 16-team league. But the announcement made by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis is a major step forward after a long process of the sides going back and forth with ideas about what might work.

“We feel now is the time to move to that next stage,” Silver said, noting that NBA owners offered “enthusiastic support” for such a move.

It’s a notion that has made sense for some time, particularly with the growth of the game in Europe and development of stars hailing from that part of the world. About one in every six current NBA players hail from Europe.

No timetable set in place yet for expansion >> Stay patient, Seattle. You too, Las Vegas, and every other city awaiting word on whether an NBA franchise could be headed its way.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed expansion again following a two-day Board of Governors meeting. In short, there is still no timetable for when the league will look to add to its current 30-team format but the league is continuing to study what a 31- or 32-team NBA might look like.

Seattle has long been mentioned as an expansion target. Some players have lobbied for Seattle to return to the NBA, and many have said they strongly support the notion of Las Vegas getting a franchise. Other cities will be considered as well.