Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer roots for another NBA All-Star game in his city – NBA Update
The grave situation of the ongoing NBA labour dispute has affected may people in Orlando, be it the fans, arena workers or the people who run their businesses in and around the Amway centre. However, the cancellation of NBA season
will not only hit the people financially and emotionally, it will also take away the All-Star game from Orlando.
This has prompted city mayor Bobby Dyer voice his concern.
Dyer believes that it has become the moral responsibility of NBA to ensure a festive All-Star weekend in Orlando. And for that, Dyer expects from the NBA officials, to give them a second All-Star game.
"I would think they [the NBA] would have a moral obligation to give us a second All-Star game since we wouldn't be getting the All-Star game in the fashion that it was promoted to us," Dyer said.
Dyer further stated that even if NBA owners and players association agree on a deal soon to form a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the fans of the Orlando still deserve to have another All-Star event in the immediate
future. The reason being, that the excitement of the 2012 NBA All-Star game has already been ruined as a result of the elongated lockout, and it might be the least followed All-Star event in the history of National Basketball Association.
"I'd like to have the All-Star Game this season and in 2014," Dyer says.
Dyer is also of the view that Orlando Magic has suffered the most during the lockout. The city had spent more than five hundred million dollars to build a new state of the art arena. The main purpose of that was to cater for the
All-Star game and attempt to generate more revenue. The revenue generation would not only have helped the franchise to earn more money and make profits, it would have also helped them in retaining their ace man Dwight Howard, by bringing more star players
around him.
As of now, the last season for which, Howard is supposed to be at Orlando Magic is on the cusp of cancellation and if the superman goes, the Magic won’t be left with any player of nearly the same pedigree.
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