Charlotte badly wants to host an NBA All-Star Weekend.
After losing the right to host the weekend in 2017 due to the controversial HB2 bill that limits protections for the state's LGBT community, Charlotte is working to get in position to host All-Star Weekend in 2019.
The Charlotte Observer reports that on Monday the Charlotte City Council voted to offer the NBA the same incentives for 2019 that were agreed upon for 2017.
Interim City Manager Ron Kimble said the Charlotte Hornets felt it would be beneficial to formally tell the NBA that the city’s offer still stands. The main part of the agreement is that the city and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority have agreed to spend up to $600,000 to support the game.
“In an effort to avoid having to negotiate various agreements, including the City Services Agreement, from scratch, the NBA, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, the Hornets Basketball, LLC, and the city have developed a letter agreement that provides that the material terms and conditions of the agreements would apply in substantially similar force and effect with respect to the 2019 All-Star Game weekend should the NBA award the game to Charlotte,” the city said in its agenda.
The NBA has said that it would consider awarding All-Star Weekend to Charlotte in the future if the city changed or repealed the law.
Maybe by 2019, that will be the case. Either way, it looks like Charlotte is pushing hard to be a part of All-Star Weekend in the future.
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