The 2027 NBA Phoenix All-Star Weekend countdown formally started throughout a press convention on the metropolis's Sky Harbor Airport on Friday, Oct. 16.
The Feb. 19-21, 2027, All-Star festivities will likely be held at Phoenix Conference Heart, with the Feb. 21 All-Star Recreation on the s' Mortgage Matchup Heart.
Longtime Suns broadcaster Tom Leander, Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein and Phoenix mayor Kate Gallego addressed the media.
The final time that an All-Star weekend was held in Phoenix was the WNBA's in 2024. Earlier than then, the NBA's earlier three Phoenix All-Star weekends had been in 2009, 1995 and 1975.
"The ladies's All-Star Recreation had an unbelievable financial affect and we realized from that," Gallego mentioned. "We're going to solely do higher, so the objective is to have one of the best All-Star Recreation ever."
Bartelstein spoke on how the Suns will differentiate the festivities from the WNBA's occasion and the earlier NBA All-Star celebrations in Phoenix.
"There are such iconic All-Star Video games right here," Bartelstein mentioned. "You form of bear in mind them as a child rising up watching them. So for us is to study these classes. (We've) gone yearly the final 5 years and brought notes, seen what they've achieved.
"The All-Star Recreation's an incredible celebration so it's had a lot success, then we put our personal taste into it, make it authentically Phoenix, do issues greater and higher and we realized rather a lot."
The NBA season opens Tuesday, Oct. 20, with three video games. The Suns start their season the next day in Portland in opposition to the Path Blazers.
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