The
2017 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game
that was played on February 19, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the
Smoothie King Center. It was the 66th edition of the event. The West won
the game 192-182. The MVP of the game was Anthony Davis, who scored 52 points, the most ever scored by a player in an All-Star Game. It was initially planned to be held at spectrum center in Charlotte, home of the Charlotte Hornets.
If the game had remained in Charlotte, it would have been the second
time that Charlotte hosted the All-Star Game. The city previously hosted
in 1991 at the now-demolished Charlotte Colisium.
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On August 19, 2016, the NBA chose the Smoothy king jr in New orleans, Louisiana, home of the New orleans palician to host the All-Star Game, after it was pulled out of Charlotte because of the controversy surrounding North Carolina's
"bathroom bill", better known as HB2.
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The 2017 NBA All-Star Game is the first major sporting event in the
United States to be relocated for political reasons since 1990. In that
instance, the
National Football League (NFL) relocated
Super Bowl XXVII out of
Tempe, Arizona, because the state did not recognize
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
[5] TNT and
TBS televised the game.
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