Idea: Boston Celtics hosting All star game

[Denis998]

Thought about this earlier this weekend. Would love to see Boston host one between 2018-2020, preferably 2018 given this team's potential. Shame to see cities with lackluster teams host in recent years, yet at the same time the focus is less on the city and more of who's doing what. Arguably you can say even the worst teams hosting it have had a standout player representing the city (AD whenever NOLA hosted, for example).

Regardless, Boston should be stable and improving if anything over the next two years. Clearly we can handle it having hosted the Finals six years ago and deep playoff runs in the years following.

I guess Kaminsky is their standout player LOL. aside from Kemba

[Al91]

Thought about this earlier this weekend. Would love to see Boston host one between 2018-2020, preferably 2018 given this team's potential. Shame to see cities with lackluster teams host in recent years, yet at the same time the focus is less on the city and more of who's doing what. Arguably you can say even the worst teams hosting it have had a standout player representing the city (AD whenever NOLA hosted, for example).

Regardless, Boston should be stable and improving if anything over the next two years. Clearly we can handle it having hosted the Finals six years ago and deep playoff runs in the years following.

I guess Kaminsky is their standout player LOL. aside from Kemba

Gah, don't even get me started on the perennially underwhelming Charlotte. Honestly I'm not sure if we'll ever know how good Kemba really is. Doesn't seem like they'll  be able to land transcendent talent. Least they're no longer that 6-win team anymore.

[mahonedog88]

I don't think it's totally out of this world to think that this could actually happen.  Adam Silver is big on having an all star weekend in a city where things are new, updated, and there isn't much construction currently going on, if any at all.

By 2020, all of the construction going on with the Millennium Tower, the Hub, and the subway at North Station should be finished...although the subway construction will be cutting it close.  Plus, ideally this will be a legit contending team (hopefully) by then too, which only helps with drawing people in.

I actually think it could be more realistic to have it a year later, in 2021.  It gives the city an extra year to clean up and get all construction done and plus, it would officially be the 70 year anniversary of the first all star game, which also took place in Boston.  I can picture Silver falling in love with that selling point.