NEW YORK — Fresh off the success of All-Star Game Weekend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Sunday that the player draft next year will likely be televised. Speaking with ESPN's Ramona Shelburne from Staples Center in Los Angeles, Silver said: When we sat with the union and we came up with this format, we all agreed, let's not turn something that's 100 percent positive into a potential negative to any player. But then ... maybe we're overly conservative, because then we came out of there, and the players were, 'We can take it. We're All-Stars. Let's have a draft.' So it sounds like we're going to have a televised draft next year. Under the new format, implemented this year, fans voted for the five starters from each conference, as they had in the past. But from there, the top vote getter from each conference (LeBron James and Steph Curry this season) drafted teams from a pool of the other starters and the reserves selected by NBA head coaches. But the draft itself was not televised, which led to speculation as to which players were drafted first and which were drafted last. All-Star DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors was much more up-front with his opinion about showing the draft: Televise it, he said. Give the people what they want to see. I think everybody wants to see it. At the end of the day, every single person that gets picked, you are an All-Star, so it doesn't matter where you really go, so I think televise it. According to ESPN, James did reveal the order of the starters he selected: Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, former Cleveland teammate Kyrie Irving and DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins missed the game because of a season-ending Achilles injury. James was named MVP of the game Sunday night after his team topped Curry's team 148-145. He scored the game-winning bucket with less than 35 seconds left in the game. Meanwhile, Diago Splitter, a starter on the 2014 NBA title-winning San Antonio Spurs, announced his retirement on Monday. The 33-year-old Splitter hasn't been on an NBA roster since the 2016-17 season. The center/forward played seven NBA campaigns. There's nothing better in the world than being a basketball player! The time has come, perhaps the most difficult in an athlete's career, time to say goodbye to the courts. I say goodbye with a broken heart but in the certainty of duty. Thank you all, Splitter said on Twitter. Splitter started 153 NBA games, and 151 of them came during his five seasons with the Spurs. He posted career-best averages of 10.3 points and 6.4 rebounds in 2012-13, the season San Antonio lost to the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. The following season, he averaged 8.2 points and 6.2 rebounds as the Spurs downed Miami in the 2014 Finals. Splitter also played for the Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers. He averaged 7.9 points and 5.0 rebounds in 355 career appearances. — Reuters