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Report: The City of Milwaukee, Bucks' bid to host 2027 All-Star Game fails

The last time that the NBA All-Star Game was held in Milwaukee was in 1977.
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It was almost half a century ago when the City of Milwaukee and the Bucks hosted an All-Star Game. At the rate things are going, the city and the Bucks may have to wait a little longer before it can host the league’s biggest weekend spectacle again.

Milwaukee and the Bucks have placed their bid to host either the 2027 or 2028 All-Star, but per a report by Shams Charania of The Athletic, the NBA is already finalizing plans for Phoenix and the Suns to host the 2027 All-Star Game.

Not qualified to host an All-Star Game

The last time the Bucks hosted the All-Star Game was in 1977 in the MECCA, which is now known as the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Odds are stacked against Milwaukee and the Bucks to host an All-Star Game after the NBA recently updated its requirements for a city to host the All-Star Game.

For a city to host an All-Star Game, it should have 7,250 hotel rooms and a minimum of three five-star hotels, a convention center with 650,000 square feet of exhibition space, 75 nonstop domestic flights, and at least 20 international flights.

For now, Milwaukee could not meet any of those requirements, thus, bringing the All-Star Game to the city again is highly improbable.

Another failed attempt

It is not the first time that Milwaukee and the Bucks tried to host the All-Star Game as they previously put in bids to host the event in 2025 and 2026. Those attempts also did not materialize as the NBA has chosen San Francisco and the Warriors to host the 2025 game at the Chase Center, while the Los Angeles Clippers will host the 2026 All-Star Game at their new $2 billion arena, Intuit Dome.

This year’s All-Star Game was held in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Damian Lillard won the All-Star Game MVP honors and his second-straight three-point shootout title.

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MATTHEW DUGANDZIC

Matthew finished his bachelor's degree in Economics (Management) at the University of Split and got his master's degree in the same field at the University of Zadar. Whether it is playing the game as an undersized 6'3'' power forward or simply watching it, Matthew can't get enough of it. After all, he has been an avid NBA fan since the 2000s. But don't get him wrong, as Matthew still loves the old-school NBA and is a true student of the game. From on-court moments to off-court stuff, whether it's about the stars of modern-day basketball or legends of the game, Matthew covers every category of the NBA world and basketball in general, as long as it makes for an engaging and exciting story.