OT (sorta): New Orleans awared All Star Game

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  1. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    again.

    they hosted the game in 2008, and will host it again in 2014.

    So mark that as 44 years without hosting the game in Portland, but 6 years between hosting it in New Orleans.

    smh.
     
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    Fuck Stern!
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Apparently none of you understand hotel issues in Portland
     
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  4. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    which is blown out of proportion.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Apparently none of you understand just how fucking dismal the weather is in Portland during the All-star break ...
     
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    Easily fixed.

    Park a couple of cruise ships right next to the Rose Garden. One for the league and players, the other for the press.

    It's what Olympic and World Cup cities do when they need extra hotel space.
     
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    Get a 3rd cruise ship and move all of Portland's strippers into it for the weekend.
     
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    Well it's a good thing NONE of the all-star activities take place OUTDOORS.
     
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    Team USA stayed on a cruise ship during the Olympics for security reasons when the games were held in Greece.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    There's more to all-star week than the idiotic three point contest and the meaningless game, it's also about attracting people to your city to go out, have a good time and spend money. When it's pissing on your head there's not much incentive for visitors to do anything but hunker down in their hotel bar.

    If I was organizing it and had my way the game would be in Vegas, New Orleans, LA, New York or Miami every goddamned year.
     
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    How is NYC weather-wise in February? One of these things is not like the others....
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    It's not great, but there's a shit-load of stuff to do in New York any time of the year any time of the day.
     
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    If the NBA is a conference for sustainability or urban growth, it would be in Portland every year! :)
     
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    When The HCP was in Athens for the Olympics he stayed at the Sofitel Athens........ man what a great time he had!
     
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    Does Portland really want hundreds of assholes and the King Asshole players they hang off like barnacles swarming the restaurants, leaving no tips, making it even harder for the rest of us to get a seat at 9am for breakfast?

    Portland doesn't need a plague of NBA locusts.
     
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    Funny, no one has problems with winter weather on the East Coast and in the Mid West. Only rain?

    Didn't Seattle get an ASG? Last time I checked it rains a lot there and gets dark earlier in winter.

    I know there are conventions in Portland and vicinity. Somehow they find spaces for all those people.
     
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    It's 1000's more people than a typical convention. Here in Houston we have had the ASG, and it literally takes up all of our hotel rooms.
     
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  18. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    So the New Orleans Hornets sale included an ASG. Wonder if it included Anthony Davis?
     
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    So more reasons PA needs to sell the blazers
     
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    I'm sure all of the players would be thrilled about spending a rainy weekend in Portland for the All-Star game. Hey, they could always drive to Mt. Hood or the coast and take photos of nature.
     
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