The Boston Celtics are putting together an application to host an All-Star Weekend as soon as 2022, team owner Wyc Grousbeck tells Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe:
Celtics ownership has shied away from presenting an application to the NBA because a majority of the team’s season ticket-holders wouldn’t be able to get their same seats for the All-Star Game. But Grousbeck said the group has decided to prepare an application and the NBA would likely relish a chance to bring the game to one of its most historic cities.
“We’re looking at an application package,” Grousbeck told the Globe. “But we have to work it out with the Convention Center. We are going to ask for an application package and we’ll see what happens.”
The soonest Boston could host the All-Star Game would be 2022. The game is in Los Angeles in 2018, Charlotte in 2019, Chicago in 2020, and Indianapolis in 2021.
The Celtics are ingrained in the history and lore of All-Star Weekend. They did, after all, host the weekend in the first and second years of its existence. Since then, they’ve hosted the festivities twice more, but haven’t done so since 1964.
It’d be cool to see All-Star Weekend back in Beantown, and it’s great that Grousbeck & co. are getting over the whole ticket-holders thing.
