Donning a hard hat while wearing a reflective safety vest over his suit and tie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stepped into a construction site Tuesday morning to announce a future celebration, officially unveiling the Clippers’ future arena, Intuit Dome, as the host of the league’s 2026 All-Star Game. “They’re under such a tight schedule here that we said, ‘Can you stop the sawing for eight minutes?’” Silver said. “I think I’ve seen pretty much every major arena in the world at this point, 32 years in the NBA,” Silver later told a small group of reporters. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Ballmer has called the new arena “basketball heaven,” just as Silver has used the term to describe the league’s All-Star weekend. Unlike the 2018 All-Star Game hosted in Los Angeles that was jointly hosted by the Lakers and Clippers, the 2026 edition will be all Clippers, with Silver saying that nothing connected to All-Star weekend will be held at Crypto.com Arena.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 17, 2024 09:36 UTC