The Intuit Dome is currently under construction in Inglewood, California, adjacent to the SoFi campus, and is expected to open in August. Its cost amounts to $1.8 billion and has capacity for 18,000 spectators.
He Intuit Domethe stadium LA Clipperswas appointed by the person responsible for the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Silverto house the All-Star Game in 2026.
The stadium, in which the Californian team will play its home games, is currently under construction in Inglewood (California), adjacent to the SoFi venue, and is expected to open in August of this year. Its cost was US$1.8 billion and it has capacity for 18,000 spectators.
Silver made the announcement during a press conference at the Intuit Domeaccompanied by the president of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, the mayor of Inglewood, James Butts, and the president of business operations of the same franchise, Gillian Zucker.
“The Intuit Dome promises to present a unique and innovative live basketball experience that will be an extraordinary venue for the NBA All-Star Game in 2026,” said league commissioner Adam Silver.
He NBA All-Star Game This season is scheduled for February 18 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, home of the Indiana Pacers, and the 2025 game will be hosted by the Golden State Warriors at Chase Arena in San Francisco.
In this sense, 2026 will be the seventh NBA All-Star Game in the Los Angeles area, a record. The last one was in 2018 in what was in Staples Centernow known as Crypto.com Arena, the current home of the Clippers until August c when the construction of the future headquarters is completely completed by 2026.
On the other hand, the meeting that was held on February 20, 2023 at the Salt Lake City and which faced the teams led by LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo, it was the NBA All-Star Game with the smallest audience in history.
The 2023 all-star game averaged 4.6 million viewers, 27% less than the previous year’s edition and 22% below the 2021 match, considered, until now, the NBA All-Star Game with the smallest following in history, with 5.9 million viewers.
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