SLC getting 2nd all-star game

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    The party capital of Utah is going to be awarded their second all-star hosting date today (first in 1993). Meanwhile, the much lamer Portland continues to be ignored.
     
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    What the hell? SLC is smaller than Portland. There can't be more hotels there.
     
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    Honestly, the Blazers head hunchos must not know what they are doing if small town salt lake can get the game over us. Or they must not really try.

    How in the hell can the NBA spin this now?
     
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    The NBA hates Portland. They hate the NW. We should just have our own All-Star game during that same weekend.
     
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    why do you think they hate us?
     
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    Originally I think they didn't like Paul very much. But the NBA thinks the NW is Siberia basically.
     
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    I Ubered a woman last year who pitches/sells conventions. She said Portland is getting a Hyatt and then it will be ready to host All Star game.
     
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    oh damn I didn’t know that what paul do to them
     
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    Rain. Portland in February is not a great place for a sprawling event. Big reason IMO.
     
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    This pisses me off more than anything else in the NBA.
     
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    Honestly, Memphis not having an all star game disappoints me more than the Blazers. Construction around the convention center will still probably be going on for a bit, so no big concern this year. Assume it goes back to Los Angeles and new New Orleans before someone else gets a shot though, so plenty of time to finish up the new hotels.
     
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    Yes, the convention center Hyatt opens in January. And of course we're getting the Ritz Carlton in 2023. But even with the Hyatt, I think we're still well short of the 6,000 4 or 5 star rooms the NBA requires.
     
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    Thats not the reason. Toronto had it and their weather is garbage. Utah is getting it and their weather sucks
     
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    so smallville Salt Lake City has more than us ?
     
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    Honestly the only plausible theory now that Utah got it is blazers are not really trying.
     
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    And Salt Lake City has those 6,000 4 or 5 star rooms?
     
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    He told Stern to fuck off when asked to move the Blazers
     
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