Salt Lake City, Utah Gets the 2023 NBA All-Star Game

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Donovan Mitchell’s team got some good news today.

(PHOTO CREDIT: Jesse Garrabrant/Getty Images.)

This season’s NBA All-Star game will be held in Chicago but the NBA plans years ahead for future all-star games. 2021 will be held in Indiana while Cleveland gets it in 2022.

For 2023? Well, I’ll let this tweet show for itself:

 

That would mean 30 years after it was last held in the city of a salty lake. 1993 NBA All-Star Weekend had plenty going on. Mark Price of the Cleveland Cavaliers won his first three-point shootout. Harold Miner, dubbed Baby Jordan in college, won his first slam dunk contest. And of course (wink wink), Jazz duo Karl Malone and John Stockton won co-MVP in a contested all-star game (that has been foreign in the game for the last few years) won by the West in overtime, 135-132.

Another notable about that weekend? The Legends Classic would have its final game in Utah. The risk of injury was scary for these retired players and that was realized in the game the year before. The shelving of the Legends Classic made way for the Rising Stars game, which would showcase the best of the rookies and second-year players of the NBA.

So congrats to Utah for getting that All-Star nod. Hopefully, Donovan Mitchell (who would be 26 then) considers doing the dunk contest again. At the very least, he SHOULD be an all-star by then (and, really, as soon as this season).

Rey-Rey is on Twitter at @TheNoLookPass.

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