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Phoenix will host the 2027 NBA All-Star Weekend, its fourth time hosting the festivities and extending the league’s West Coast swing for one of its marquee in-season events. The 76th NBA All-Star Game will take place on February 21 at Footprint Center, which this summer will host the WNBA All-Star Game. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver […]
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The Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, the soon-to-be new home for the Los Angeles Clippers opening later this year, will host the 2026 NBA All-Star Weekend culminating with the 75th All-Star Game on February 15, 2026. It will mark a record seventh NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles and the first time the Intuit Dome. […]
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Oklahoma City voters on Tuesday approved a 1% sales tax for six years to help fund a new downtown arena for the NBA’s Thunder that is expected to cost at least $900 million and keep the team in Oklahoma City through at least 2050. The Oklahoma State Election Board reported that 71% of the city’s […]
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San Francisco and the Bay Area will host the 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend of events with the game itself at the Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, on February 16, 2025. NBA All-Star 2025 will mark the first time that the event has been held at Chase Center, which opened in 2019. The […]
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The NBA season may have ended June 12 in Denver when the Nuggets captured their first championship. But the NBA never truly sleeps. The league took over Las Vegas starting July 7 with Summer League games tipping off at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion. Simultaneously, the inaugural NBA Con — a massive […]
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The NBA’s long-reported plans for an in-season tournament will be realized in the 2023–2024 regular season with the semifinals and finals of the event scheduled for December 7-9, 2023, in Las Vegas. The exact dates for the tournament’s Las Vegas residency were reported by ESPN on Wednesday. The news breaks as Las Vegas prepares to […]
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The growth of both the All-Star Weekend and Salt Lake City since 1993 is evident. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said during the recent NBA All-Star Weekend festivities that the league occupied 33,000 hotel nights during the event, dwarfing the number from 30 years ago when the city last hosted. NBA Crossover, the fan festival at […]
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For so many teams at all levels of sports, having a bubble burst used to mean they would not get into the NCAA Tournament, or would have their playoff chances extinguished on the final day of the regular season. These days, having a bubble burst means much, much more. For nearly every professional sports league, […]
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After months of waiting, you and your spouse are heading to the stadium. After a wait of what seems like forever to be at a game, your mobile tickets are loaded on the phone as you get out of your car and head over to the stadium entrance, making sure to stop six feet from […]
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Going six weeks without sports is making the fandom world start to go a bit stir-crazy, but NBA Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts has a firm message: Don’t rush things. “Our fans are more loyal than I think many of us appreciate,” Roberts said during the final virtual Sports Business Journal/CAA World of Sports […]
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.@VisitDelcoPA has become the 14th member of PA Sports, the lead agency for sports tourism in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jim Boedecker, a sports marketing and golf industry veteran with more than 20 years experience, will join @KemperSports as senior vice president – golf strategy and growth.
The @usahockey National Sled Hockey Team will play three games against Canada at WinSport Arena in Calgary, Alberta, April 3–6, in the latest of a near-annual competition between the North American rivals.
NEW VENUES: After playing 35 seasons inside the Ferrell Center, @BaylorMBB and @BaylorWBB have moved into a new fieldhouse that seats more than 7,000 — the $212 million Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion. @cityofwaco
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