The Clippers will get a model new stadium and might be christening it with the 2026 All-Star weekend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver introduced Tuesday.
Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California will observe on from the 2024 and 2025 All-Star Video games in Indianapolis and San Francisco – hosted by the Pacers and Warriors.
The Clippers are planning to maneuver into the estimated $2 billion greenback stadium by June and open in August.
“We’re appreciative,” Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer stated. “The league gave us a yr to get our act collectively in order that we will be not simply good however good when the All-Star Recreation comes right here. Simply suppose, if you wish to have the head of basketball, it’s important to have the easiest gamers on the earth taking part in right here.”
The Intuit Dome is ready to host NBA video games in time for the 2024-25 season and Silver spent an hour touring the venue as it’s being constructed earlier than Tuesday’s press convention.
“I’ve seen just about each main area on the earth at this level, 32 years within the NBA,” Silver stated. “And that is in contrast to something I’ve ever seen. It begins with the truth that Steve Ballmer selected to construct a basketball-centric area … He wished to construct this area to make basketball the centerpiece. On high of that, in fact, he ran Microsoft. He’s one of many world’s nice technologists, and he introduced all that studying [to this arena]. He is also somebody who, at this level in his life, had the time to personally imprint his imaginative and prescient on this constructing.”
Silver additionally confirmed that Intuit Dome would be the venue for the 2028 Summer season Olympics in LA.
The 2026 occasion would be the seventy fifth version of All-Star Weekend and can mark the seventh time the NBA All-Star Recreation has been held within the Los Angeles metro space.
Following on from All-Star’s in 1963, 1972, 1983, 2004, 2011 and 2018.
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