The NBA is hoping to bring back All-Star Weekend to the New York area for the 2015 edition of the game, but the league is still deciding whether the host team will be the New York Knicks or Brooklyn Nets. While there is still plenty to work out, the good news is that the two sides are working together and cooperating in an effort to share the events.
It would be the first time that the game was played in New York City since Madison Square Garden hosted the game in 1998.
“There is progress in that the teams are working together … recognizing that it’s in both of their interests to create a basketball festival-type atmosphere around All-Star in New York, and so things are going well,” NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said, via the New York Post.
“We’ll work around it because we want to find a way for the most people possible to touch our All-Star Weekend, recognizing there is a capped limit on the number of people who can be in the arena. We’re looking to work our way to build other events and to find a different way, a unique way to build Jam Session in New York.”
All signs point towards one of the arenas holding the special All-Star Weekend events like the three-point competition and slam dunk competition, while the other venue gets to stake their claim to the actual game itself.
There is still plenty to work out before the NBA brings the All-Star Game back to New York City, but it is a positive sign that the two franchises appear willing to work together in order to make it happen.