Where will the NBA All Star Game be played in 2010?
The 2010 NBA All-Star Game will be played on February 14, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Mavericks will serve as host. This will be the second time the organization will serve as host of the All-Star showdown. Reunion Arena in Downtown Dallas was the site of the All-Star Game in 1986. The game will be the 59th annual All-Star Game. It will be the first All-Star contest to be played in a football stadium since 1996 when San Antonio’s Alamodome served host. Commissioner David Stern, Mavs owner Mark Cuban, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made the announcement at a news conference on October 30, 2008. During the 2009 NBA Dunk Contest, LeBron James announced that he would like to participate in the 2010 NBA Dunk Contest. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
Mark Cuban doesn’t do small. He likes his projects two ways: bigger and biggest. So when the NBA, the Mavericks and the Cowboys jointly announce Thursday that the 2010 NBA All-Star Game is coming to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it will be the start of a 16-month preparation for what Cuban hopes will be the biggest party Dallas has seen since the last Super Bowl parade. The All-Star Game will be played in February 2010 at the Cowboys’ new stadium in Arlington, according to multiple sources. Other events on the Friday and Saturday before the Sunday game will take place at various venues, including American Airlines Center and, probably, the Dallas Convention Center. It will be Cuban’s chance to throw a big party. But it will be Dirk Nowitzki playing host to the NBA world. “All-Star [weekend] is always a special event for the city it’s in,” Nowitzki said Wednesday. “I always thought that Cuban at the beginning when he took over wasn’t going to do an All-Star Game. But if it’s really going
The Mavericks and Cowboys are planning a Thursday announcement that the All-Star Game will be played at the new football stadium in Arlington. A source said that NBA officials will be in Dallas on Thursday, when the Mavericks play their season opener. Most of the ancillary events for the All-Star weekend would be at American Airlines Center. The Mavericks have been working with the Cowboys and the NBA for several months in an attempt to land the 2010 game. Owner Mark Cuban confirmed to The Dallas Morning News in May that the Cowboys and Mavericks were working on a combined bid for the game. Sources: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102908dnspoallstar_hp.15bf19380.
