<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK -- NBA leaders will convene today inside a posh Manhattan hotel for a gathering that could advance or crush Las Vegas' nascent bid to host the league's All-Star weekend in February 2007. And though he won't be in attendance, the man who headed Denver's effort to land this year's midseason extravaganza said Thursday his organization supports bringing basketball's All-Star weekend to the Thomas & Mack Center. "It makes a lot of sense on a lot of levels," Jeff Plush, senior director of business development for the Kroenke Sports Enterprises, said by telephone from his Denver office. "In many respects an All-Star game is just another big convention, and Las Vegas does things like that every day. "The limousines, hotels, bus companies -- all the things you have to have to make the event work -- you already have 10 times over. I really don't see any disadvantages." Over 55 seasons, including next year's game scheduled for Houston, the NBA has always staged its All-Star game in a city with its own NBA franchise. But Plush said Las Vegas' lack of a team could become an advantage when it prepares its bid for the 56th All-Star game. "The NBA keeps the majority of the tickets, so people who are your everyday supporters don't always get to go" to All-Star events, said Plush, whose company owns the Denver Nuggets as well as the team's arena, Pepsi Center. "But Las Vegas wouldn't have the issues with season ticket holders, team sponsors or luxury box owners that you'd experience with an NBA arena." Plush also believes the NBA commissioner would be willing to risk staging the event in neutral city. "No one is better than David Stern at having a different vision," Plush said. "This year it could be about Las Vegas; in other years it may involve London or Paris to further market the league. But right now, Vegas makes sense." </div> Source
The players would love it. And corporate types too. But how many of the fans that attend All-Star weekend are homers and how many come from out of town just for the event? I think it's a perfect fit as well, but so far, David Stern hasn't asked for my opinion.
The owner would proably love to have a team in Las Vegas. But I don't know. The players will be partying every night which they do on any other team. So it should bring alot of money of that was to happen.
