Lacking Own All-Stars, Garden Pushes for NBA All-Star Game

With the $500 million renovation of Madison Square Garden scheduled to be complete by the 2011-2012 season, the Knicks are hoping to finally participate in All-Star Game festivities. Not necessarily with a player, which they haven't had since Allan Houston in 2001, but by hosting the actual NBA All-Star Game in 2012. While Garden officials haven't made an official proposal yet, NBA Commish David Stern told The Times that hosting, "is a very live possibility." Given how Major League Baseball took over NYC earlier this month, it's just a matter of time until the NBA has its turn. Perhaps by 2012, the Knicks can get a player into the actual game.

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By tien mao in News on July 24, 2008 1:15 PM

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pk4l

Knicks aren't that bad!

Rfive

"...but it brings a ton of hookers, pimps, drug dealers, and gangsters to whatever town it lands in."

shit cw. racist a bit? or just a silly statement? because you won't find any of those folks in nyc anyway...

David

Madison Square Garden's ownership deserves nothing that can even remotely be considered positive or profitable.

cwbuecheler

Supposedly the Nets will be in Brooklyn for the opening of the 2010 season, but given that they haven't even broken ground on the Arena yet, I'm skeptical.

The problem with the NBA All-Star game - and this was a huge issue in Vegas - is the culture that surrounds it is full of violence. It's not the NBA's fault ... they go out of their way to not market the thug aspect of basketball, but it brings a ton of hookers, pimps, drug dealers, and gangsters to whatever town it lands in.

I'm sure the NYPD can keep up better than the Vegas police did, but still ... hosting the NBA All-Star Game isn't all positives.

- cwbuecheler