LVCVA set to sponsor NBA in-season tournament

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority yesterday unanimously approved spending $2.25M to "sponsor the NBA’s first-ever in-season tournament" in the city in December, according to Richard Velotta of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. The sponsorship agreement will provide the LVCVA with "advertising, marketing and hospitality opportunities before, during and after the event." All 30 NBA teams will participate in the tournament with initial games that will "count in the standings played at NBA sites, but the semifinals and championship game to be played Dec. 7 and 9 at T-Mobile Arena." Oak View Group is building an "'NBA-ready' arena attached to a new resort planned on Las Vegas Boulevard near Blue Diamond Road." In addition, former NBAer Jackie Robinson is "attempting to get his All-Net Arena, planned on a lot between the Sahara and Fontainebleau, built for possible NBA use" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 8/8).



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