Does this make an AS game in Portland more likely?

[<-=*PdX*=->]

New excuse will be that the arena is nearly 20 years old and well past its prime for a ASG unless its renovated and then we are back to the public for $$$ to renovate and then Allen threatens to sell the team again, rinse, wash, repeat.

 

[PapaG]

Conventions like the ones PapaG are talking about wouldn't come to Portland regardless of anything. They just want to show off, and a city like Orlando or Vegas gives them the ability to waves their dicks and their bankrolls in everyone's faces. However, there are plenty of mid-level conventions that would love to come to Portland given the right lodging situation, ones that actually want their conventions to get something done rather than be a showcase for how awesome their company is.

Would it be enough to attract an ASG? I don't really know, nor care. I used to think that the NBA's lack of interest in holding an ASG in Portland was a slap in the face of the fans, but ASG's stopped being about the fans a couple of decades ago, now it's just a corporate handout to the NBA's main sponsors, and the locals are mostly shut out of the activities. Given the fact that it would be in February, which is some of the worst weather for the year in Portland, regardless of the brewpubs, Pearl District nightclubs, and local eateries, why would the NBA corporate machine and a pack of rich, entitled 20-something NBA millionaires want to come here? Not for the city. Not for the fans. It isn't about Portland, it's about the NBA. Took me a long time to accept that.

Which is why Vegas and Orlando have huge convention centers and hotels. What mid-level conventions is putting $10m in tax dollars into a Hyatt going to attract? Cheap companies with cheap conventions don't have much of an impact on the local economy.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Which is why Vegas and Orlando have huge convention centers and hotels. What mid-level conventions is putting $10m in tax dollars into a Hyatt going to attract? Cheap companies with cheap conventions don't have much of an impact on the local economy.

We are your average company. Last week I was at the Bellagio for 5 days and never left the resort. (118 degrees outside was a factor) But every night we spent between $500-$1000 at dinner. (5 people) That could easily have been a nice restaurant in Portland. Our conference of 1200 people easily spent $600,000 in 5 nights just on dinners. Probably a lot more. I bet the local Portland economy would like that.

 

[PapaG]

We are your average company. Last week I was at the Bellagio for 5 days and never left the resort. (118 degrees outside was a factor) But every night we spent between $500-$1000 at dinner. (5 people) That could easily have been a nice restaurant in Portland. Our conference of 1200 people easily spent $600,000 in 5 nights just on dinners. Probably a lot more. I bet the local Portland economy would like that.

Would your company do it, though? Flights do come into play. We've been trying to get our company to either Vegas or Anaheim, but the east coast people will never do it.

 

[magnifier661]

Only chance Portland gets an all star team is when they 3 peat

 

[Pinwheel1]

Would your company do it, though? Flights do come into play. We've been trying to get our company to either Vegas or Anaheim, but the east coast people will never do it.

This particular one is in Vegas every year. But the others alternate to make everyone happy. NE SW, SE, NW. Midwest......You pretty much have to go.

 

[santeesioux]

Never gonna happen.