We Got Next: Indianapolis Set to Host NBA All-Star 2024

Simply earlier than the beginning of the fourth quarter eventually evening’s All-Star Recreation in Salt Lake Metropolis, the ball was formally handed to Indianapolis.

Utah Jazz governors Ryan and Ashley Smith handed off a basketball to Pacers governors Herb and Steve Simon and household, a symbolic gesture to symbolize that Indianapolis will lastly host NBA All-Star from Feb. 16-18, 2024.

NBA All-Star has not come to the Circle Metropolis since 1985. The town was initially scheduled to host All-Star festivities in 2021 earlier than being rescheduled to 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bringing NBA All-Star again to Indiana has been years within the making. Larry Chook initially delivered the crew’s bid to host the occasion to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver by driving an Indy Automotive via New York Metropolis to the league places of work in April 2017. The league formally introduced that Indianapolis would host NBA All-Star in December 2017.

Within the years since, leaders from Pacers Sports activities & Leisure and the All-Star Host Committee have traveled to NBA All-Star yearly, learning the various parts of the occasion and the way every metropolis executes it, with the purpose of placing on the best All-Star occasion the league has ever seen in 2024.

“I’ve stated this from day one: We would like this to be remembered as the best All-Star Weekend ever,” Pacers Sports activities & Leisure CEO Rick Fuson advised The Athletic. “We would like them to know that Indianapolis is someplace they’ll wish to come again to. We would like them to say, ‘Wow, they did a hell of a job, it was straightforward to get round, we’ll by no means take into consideration Indianapolis the identical approach once more.’”

That continued this week, as a big contingent from town and group had been available in Salt Lake Metropolis to soak every little thing in a single final time earlier than it’s Indianapolis’ time to shine.

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