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Should NBA All-Star Game Bother with New Orleans?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Almost_Famous, Feb 20, 2007.

  1. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Can they play the game in Windsor? :D
     
  2. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Feb-21-Wed-2007/news/12722196.html

    why is espn ignoring the pacman jones story... read what the strip club owner has to say about pacman's role...

    when terrell owens farts it's major news on espn and across the globe... the all-star disaster is being completely ignored. why?

    if this thing goes to new orleans, it'll be the biggest mistake since...well, i don't know when....
     
  3. expendable

    expendable Well-Known Member

    Since they put a team in New Orleans???
     
  4. tyler durden 71351

    tyler durden 71351 Active Member

    I think there were different dynamics with the NBA All-Star game in Las Vegas that won't be an issue in New Orleans. For one, this was the first time that Vegas hosted the All Star game, so a lot of people showed up who wouldn't normally go. New Orleans is used to holding huge party events, like the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras -- not that the big fights and conventions that Vegas specializes in are DAR socials, but they're a little smaller. And there's a "let's-go-buck-wild-because-we're-in-Vegas" attitude. I don't think that will be in play in New Orleans. Of course, if Pac Man Jones hits Bourbon Street with a sawed-off shotgun, I'll admit I'm wrong.
    I also think Stern is bringing the NBA All Star game to N.O. as a good faith post-Katrina gesture, giving the city a Super Bowl sized event. He's probably more aware than anyone that the Hornets will leave New Orleans in the next few years.
     
  5. busuncle

    busuncle Member

    Atlanta had experience in big events, too, including the dearly departed Freaknik, and the All-Star game there a few years ago was a similar disaster.
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

     
  7. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    Sorry, but it's not so much about whether or not N.O. would survive, but whether or not the NBA is so out of control that ANY place in the U.S. should be subjected to their all-star weekend. And it's not just a vegas thing, as some have implied. The NBA's been heading down this road for a while.
     
  8. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Surprise, surprise. Whitlock went off on the NBA. I thought his column was dead on target. This league has a very serious image problem that's going to drive all but the gangsta-rap crowd away. ESPN won't do anything on it because they're so far up the NBA's ass. The Review-Journal barely touched it too, which is disgusting (JMHO, but that paper's pretty decent for not having a pro sports franchise in the city).

    I don't think moving the A-S game to New Orleans would be worse than Katrina, but with what that city's gone through...
     
  9. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I thought the plural of "ho" was "hos"
     
  10. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    ESPN has essentially buried its head in the sand and ignored all of the crime in and around the All-Star Game. At least one of the columnists did say, however, that finding a cop was next to impossible. From a distance, it appears the city didn't want to do anything about crime because without cops, there are no arrests, and without arrests, there are no arrest reports for the media to uncover.
     
  11. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    That doesn't jibe with the 320 arrests which were mentioned associated with the weekend, or the heavy police presence reported by some, like Whitlock.
     
  12. police lined the strip but they did nothing. the police presence outside the casinos was very heavy. but the police mostly made minor arrests. they were doing their best not to provoke anyone. the goal was survival.
     
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