No NBA All Star Game For Portland

The Willamette Week has an article about Why Portland never gets the NBA All-Star Game.Paul Gerald writes, "No franchise other than Boston in the 30-team NBA has gone longer than Portland without the premier midseason game, and at least the Celtics had it in 1964."

"So why does the league skip Portland, spreading the game's cash and international cachet elsewhere? Lack of a big-time hotel."

With the NBA All-Star Game being "a $30 million boost for the local economy and a TV audience in 210 countries" it seems like the PDC plan for a convention-center big hotel is a great idea! Too bad Mayor Tom Potter "has been very skeptical of plans to use public money to build a new headquarters hotel at the Oregon Convention Center." according to the Oregonian.