The Brooklyn Nets have a sweet new arena in the Barclay Center. Madison Square Garden — home to the New York Knicks — just underwent a dramatic and expensive remodel. So who gets to host the All-Star games? Well they could end up sharing. Read more after the jump.
At this year’s All-Star Game, David Stern said there were just two bids to host the 2015 edition of the mid-season game — the Knicks and the Nets. Which is a bit of a sticky political mess for the league trying not to play favorites in the nation’s largest market.
So they may share. Which seems contrary to a New York’s sports ethos, but there you have it.
Current NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver — the guy who gets David Stern’s job next February — said on a conference call Friday that sharing is being discussed.
“It is possible, and we would divide the events between the two teams,” Silver said.
But would two franchises in the same city with a budding rivalry (at least the Nets think so) be open to this?
“There’s ongoing discussions, but yes. Yes, they’re both open to that,” Silver said.
It would likely be that one venue hosts the Friday and Saturday night events, the other the All-Star Game itself. But the question of where the Fan Jam convention and other events around the game would be hosted has to be worked out.
Either way, the game is going to New York in 2015. The 2014 game is in New Orleans.
Kurt Helin for ProBasketballTalk
