Blazers make a bid for the All-Star game

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

http://forwardcenter.net/trail-blazers-put-in-all-star-bid-with-we-got-next-campaign/

 

[PDXFonz]

KRS One, I like it!

I doubt we win it though

 

[magnifier661]

The allstar game is long overdue. The NBA needs to reward Portland and their fans for their dedication to the game of basketball

 

[HailBlazers]

MLS All-Star week was quite the success here recently, Portland will definitely need a legit hotel for the NBA AS weekend and it sounds like it's finally underway. Great news!

 

[barfo]

The theme of the bid, which was submitted to the NBA on Wednesday and entitled “We Got Next,” promotes Portland as the 10th fastest growing city in the United States while noting major sportswear companies like Nike, adidas and Columbia are based in the area. The materials also call out Portland’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean, Mt. Hood and the Columbia Gorge while noting over 400 wineries and 60 breweries are all within an hour’s drive.

Portland: You can buy shoes, go somewhere else, or get drunk.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Smart, hold the ASG right when the convention center hotel opens because it will be closed within 3yrs after that.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The All Star Weekend experience blows. I went to the weekend twice. First time around 2002 in LA at the Staples, it was still ghetto. The only way I was able to swing tickets was through some corporate sponsor for the dunk contest night. Resellers and people were selling them for shitloads and it was pretty boring.

I think it was back here in 2012. I went to the fan experience which was overcrowded and lame. Some laker fan talked shit about me wearing blazers gear, as an NBA fan. Too crowded and long lines. Went to the Rookie/Sophmore game, I think Wes Matthews was in it. That was pretty good, I got pretty sweet tickets, but then again, the NBA gave most of the tickets to some boys and girls clubs or something.

Midlevel seats in the 200 level will cost $300 unless you're hooked up at Nike or Adidas for the ASG it self. That, along with the fact that its boring as fuck and the players are hungover...yeah.




Basically, the NBA All Star Weekend is also colloquially called "Black Thanksgiving". Trains and planes of hoes and their pimps come to the host city. Rappers throw big, expensive parties at the hottest clubs (which portland has none of) where you too can buy $600 bottles of Vodka and $1500 bottles of champagne (although this practice is banned in Portland).

See how Vegas liked it. Basically killed an interest in the city to have an NBA franchise.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/18/nba.allstar.black.thanksgiving/

People will drive for eight hours, fly across the country, take a stagecoach, whatever it takes. Most people who come to ASW, you see, have no tickets for anything. They certainly have no tickets for the game or the dunk contest or three-point shooting contest. (The NBA doles out most of the seats to their corporate partners and those partners' families and friends).
The hope is to get into the numerous, almost unending parties that promulgate the weekend. They're like our solar system. The parties furthest from the orbit of actual NBA players are usually the cheapest and easiest to get into, no more difficult than a garden variety Friday night at your local hip-hop spot.
Then there are parties "sponsored" or "hosted" by an All-Star (Allen Iverson was famous for these), where there's a chance the actual player will show up at some point. If they do, it's usually late in the evening, after they've gone to the more swank parties. They're almost always surrounded by security and quickly wind up in the VIP section, walled off from their adoring fans. (Although, truth be told, occasionally a young, attractive woman may, somehow, be let inside the velvet ropes.)
Then there are parties that the All-Stars actually sponsor, usually for a charity or some such cause, such as Magic Johnson and Alonzo Mourning's celebrity pool tournament. The "Players' Party," sponsored by its union, is the most sought-after ticket of ASW. The few tickets and passes to these events go out quickly and quietly to assorted friends, sponsors, media (yes, I get invited to a few) and fellow ballers. Unless you have an "in," these are very difficult to get into. Which is why people call. I try not to have tickets on purpose for this very reason; somehow, word always leaks out when you have an extra pair, and you suddenly become the most interesting man in the world.
But it really doesn't matter to a lot of folks if they get into any of these events. The important thing is being there -- with your best girlfriend, or the fellas, or your frat. There may be some people who try to take advantage of all the money and the bling that come to town. But that's not the vibe that runs through ASW. It's a party, to be sure. But it also is a family portrait.
"Baseball's Negro League All-Star Game was once the biggest national black social event of the year." Boyd of USC said. "It seems that the NBA All-Star Game serves a similar purpose now, but on a much bigger platform."
Warts and all, it celebrates the extended community --the incredible athletic, improvisational ability of the NBA's best players; the incredible economic power of those stars, the sway they hold over the media and corporate America, a reality that would not have been thinkable 40 years ago.

 

[BlazerWookee]

So... We stole a crappy WNBA slogan as a theme for our bid for an All-Star game?

Sigh...

 

[santeesioux]

Oklahoma will get one of these lame weekends before we do.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Fuckin' awesome!
Go big or go home! You wont bring it to PDX unless ya try!

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Portland in February . . . why don't we just piss on NBA fans and call it good.

 

[Rhal]

Portland in February . . . why don't we just piss on NBA fans and call it good.

If they get pissed at us for having the AS game here imagine how lissed they will be when we win the title.

 

[PDXFonz]

Portland in February . . . why don't we just piss on NBA fans and call it good.

Toronto can't be much better, right?

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Would save nba money in travel expenses since by 2017 our whole starting line up will be on the all star team.

 

[PDXFonz]

So... We stole a crappy WNBA slogan as a theme for our bid for an All-Star game?

Sigh...

It held meaning long before the WNBA

 

[Mediocre Man]

In other news.....


Blazers soon to be told no regarding all-star game

 

[illmatic99]

Toronto can't be much better, right?

Climate wise, prolly not. But Toronto is an amazing city with so much diversity. And tons of clubs/venues to host parties, with sights to see and places to visit. I grew up in Beaverton, so my perception of Portland metro is pretty vanilla. I like Toronto a lot better...... don't hate me. hehe

 

[tlongII]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[santeesioux]

Climate wise, prolly not. But Toronto is an amazing city with so much diversity. And tons of clubs/venues to host parties, with sights to see and places to visit. I grew up in Beaverton, so my perception of Portland metro is pretty vanilla. I like Toronto a lot better...... don't hate me. hehe

Portland has all of those strip clubs that famous rappers and celebrities will love tho!

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

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League officials recently visited Portland to gauge All-Star hosting capabilities and left encouraged, I'm told. #Blazers hoping for 2018.

 

[Strenuus]

Chris HaynesVerified account
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League officials recently visited Portland to gauge All-Star hosting capabilities and left encouraged, I'm told. #Blazers hoping for 2018.

it would be cool.

 

[Natebishop3]

Meh. I'd rather have an NBA Draft night. I think that would be more fun.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Meh. I'd rather have an NBA Draft night. I think that would be more fun.

I went to the 92" draft in Portland, with Shaq. It's wasn't as fun as I thought it would be