Where is the 2024 All-Star Game MLB
|
Show Future locations for NBA All-Star Weekend Where will NBA All-Star 2020 take place?> Chicago The 69th annual NBA All-Star Gamewill take place in Chicago at the United Center, home of the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls, on Sunday, Feb. 16. This will mark the third NBA All-Star in Chicago, which held the annual celebration in 1973 and 1988. In addition to the All-Star Game, the United Center will be the venue for the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday, Feb. 14, as well as State Farm All-Star Saturday Night. The new Wintrust Arena, home of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, will host the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. Where will NBA All-Star 2021 take place?> Postponed Public health conditions prevented the the Indiana Pacers, the NBA All-Star Host Committee and the NBA from appropriately planning and executing fan-focused All-Star activities in Indianapolis that were envisioned for this February. The 2024 NBA All-Star Game will take place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, home of the Pacers, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. Plans for a revised NBA All-Star 2021 will be announced at a later date. Where will NBA All-Star 2022 take place?> Cleveland The 70th NBA All-Star Game is slated for Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 in Cleveland at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers previously hosted NBA All-Star in 1997, when the NBA celebrated its 50th anniversary, and in 1981. The NBA will host several events at venues throughout the city, including The Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University and Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Where will NBA All-Star 2023 take place? > Salt Lake City The 71st NBA All-Star Game will take place at Vivint Smart Home Arena, home of the Utah Jazz, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. This will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1993 NBA All-Star Game played in Salt Lake City. NBA All-Star on-court events will tip off on Friday, Feb. 17 at Vivint Smart Home Arena and will culminate with the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 19. Additional programming for fans of all ages will take place at venues throughout the city, including the Salt Palace Convention Center and Huntsman Center on the University of Utah campus. Where will NBA All-Star 2024 take place > Indianapolis The 72nd NBA All-Star Game, which was originally scheduled for Feb. 12-14, 2021 in Indianapolis will now be held there on Feb. 16-18, 2024. Public health conditions prevented the Pacers, the NBA All-Star Host Committee and the NBA from appropriately planning and executing fan-focused All-Star activities in Indianapolis that were envisioned for this February. The 2024 NBA All-Star Game will take place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, home of the Pacers, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. Plans for a revised NBA All-Star 2021 will be announced at a later date. “While we are disappointed that the NBA All-Star Game will not take place in Indianapolis in 2021, we are looking forward to the Pacers and the city hosting the game and surrounding events in 2024,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “I want to thank Herb Simon, Steve Simon, Rick Fuson and the entire Pacers organization as well as the NBA All-Star 2021 Host Committee and the community of Indianapolis for working with us to reschedule our All-Star activities.” Take a look at the history of NBA All-Star locations and game results of each NBA All-Star Game. It’s Tuesday, Athletics Nation! Next week brings the 2022 MLB All-Star Game. It’s being held in Dodger Stadium for the second time ever, and played in LA as a make-up in scheduling after the 2020 game originally scheduled in Chavez Ravine was cancelled due to the pandemic. The last time the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the All-Star game was in 1980, and 40 years later they got the nod again a) because it had been four decades since one of the highest profile teams in a major population centre hosted, and b) with recent upgrades and renovations to the park, the Dodgers have no plan to move out of Dodger Stadium any time soon. That last point gets to one of the most critical factors that MLB uses to decide what team hosts the game: the stadium. MLB loves to use the All-Star Game as a way to showcase the league’s newest and shiniest stadiums. In the last 20 years of ASGs, only three games have not been the first hosted by that stadium: last year’s sudden replacement game at Coors Field; 2012 at Kauffman which followed a major park refurbishment in 2009; and 2008 at old Yankee Stadium which was used as a sendoff to the old park before new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009. Currently the only announced future ASGs are next year’s at T-Mobile Park in Seattle (following 2013 and 2017 renos), and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in 2026 (first ASG since the park opened in 2004, also coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence). Four other parks have yet to host the All-Star Game: Tropicana Field, new Yankee Stadium, Truist Park (which just opened in 2017), and Globe Life Field (opened in 2020), and among them all but the Trop seem likely to host during the next decade. Tampa Bay will likely get the chance to host once a new stadium gets figured out for the Rays, rather than showcasing an aging dome that first hosted an NHL team. So where do the A’s fit into this? Well, similar to the Dodgers it’s been awhile since Oakland hosted the game, 35 years in fact. But much like the Rays situation, MLB probably doesn’t want to showcase the 56-year-old concrete dive bar that the A’s call home. The continued development of the Howard Terminal ballpark changed that story though. Assuming all goes well through the summer and the current expected timeline holds true, ground could break on the Howard Terminal park early next year. Following the usual two-year construction period for an MLB-quality stadium, the A’s would look to move into their new home in 2025 — which lines up with an expired Coliseum lease after 2024. But don’t expect green and gold All-Star jerseys just three years from now. Even with a brand new park, the A’s have four or five candidates in line ahead of them depending on how Tampa Bay shakes out. Considering the fact that Truist Park was already set to host the ASG once before, and a Midsummer Classic at Yankee Stadium will always be a slam dunk for MLB, the All-Star schedule for the next while could look like:
These are the gimme locales, either already confirmed, or ready for their ASG debut. Conveniently this even fits into MLB’s preference of alternating NL and AL parks. What follows enters into the conjecture-zone, as we get to some assumptions and if-everything-goes-right scenarios. So we assume that the A’s finally get their new park in 2025. An operational park doesn’t mean that the area around it is fully developed. With the current Howard Terminal plan being tied to housing, hotels, and commercial space being built around the park, the chances of showcasing the new Oakland Ballpark go up once those high rises in all the mockups get built. Now some of that will come along with the park, some of it will follow close after, but let’s give 3 years for the area to be more or less solidified. That puts us in 2028. The 2028 idea gives us another assumption, because the Rays’ lease at Tropicana Field runs out after 2027. That means six years from now the Rays are hopefully opening their new stadium and joining the A’s in potential All-Star hosting contention. The A’s and Rays securing stadiums brings about one big event for Manfred and MLB: Expansion. The Commissioner has stated multiple times that expanding the league will be on the table once the two lingering ballpark situations are sorted, and in our theoretical 2028 they are. Assuming that any remaining necessities for expansion get hammered out with the new Commissioner in 2024, once ground is broken for the new Oakland and St. Pete parks the league starts the expansion bid process in 2026. Along with the 2027 collective bargaining agreement getting sorted, setting a 2027 expansion draft means that a pair of new clubs join the league in 2028 and enter the fray for the ASG. So we have 4 candidates post-2027: the Oakland A’s, the Tampa Bay Rays, and our expansion teams who for the sake of convenience we will call the Montreal Expos and Vancouver Mountaineers. In addition we can expect a few existing parks to go through some extensive refurbishment or replacement. Let’s say Wrigley Field (last hosted 1990) and American Family Field in Milwaukee (last hosted 2002 under the name Miller Park) both get revamped enough to qualify for hosting duties. With that lineup of teams and fields we can build the ASG timeline out past 2028:
While this is all incredibly speculative, the timeline seems pretty reasonable. It’s easy to see the A’s hosting the All-Star Game within the next decade, especially with the current ballpark momentum. A’s Coverage
MLB News & Interest
Best of TwitterKeep your eyes out for Schuemann making his way up the minors
Matt Olson takes over the Ironman streak, playing every game since last May with the A’s
Montas update: looking good
Bride update: could be back in game action as soon as tomorrow
Post-game Piscotty update
Where is the 2025 MLB AllThe Class of 2025 All-American Games will be held August 3-5 at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA.
Who is hosting the 2024 MLB AllThe Philadelphia Phillies will host the event as part of the league's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Locations for 2024 and 2025 have yet to be announced, though the Boston Red Sox have reportedly made a bid to host one in the next five years.
Where is the MLB AllAfter Los Angeles hosted the All-Star Game this July, the next two Midsummer Classics are already planned with the 2023 game heading to Seattle and 2026 in Philadelphia.
Where is the MLB AllT-Mobile Park2023 Major League Baseball All-Star Game / Locationnull
|
