Who will be on LA at that point?
With the 2023 All-Star Weekend festivities already upon us, your Los Angeles Lakers’ home court is making a bid to host the 2025 All-Star Game, per Arash Markazi of The Sporting Tribune.
“We plan on submitting a bid when advised by the NBA that the bid process is open for 2025,” Lee Zeidman, the president of Crypto.com Arena, Microsoft Theater and L.A. Live, informed Markazi. “And we would love to host in 2025, making it every seven years since 2004. Our renovations will be complete and our long and successful history of hosting three NBA All-Star weekends at L.A. Live as well as other major events coupled with our strong working relationships with the LA Sports and Entertainment Council and the City of Los Angeles, we would hope position AEG as a strong contender for the bid.”
As Zeidman notes, back in its Staples Center days, the arena, which has served as the home for your Lakers (and, fine, the Clippers) has previously hosted the All-Star Game in 1997, 2004, 2011, and 2018. Markazi adds that the newly-rechristened arena is in the midst of a three-year renovation that is expected to cost upwards of $375 million.
What will your Lakers look like in 2025? Would a then-41-year-old LeBron James (a) still be with the franchise and (b) still be an All-Star? Were that to happen, he would be extending his record for All-Star appearances beyond his current 19, which ties him with Lakers Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Among current LA players, only James and Anthony Davis hold player options for the 2024-25 season. It will be fascinating to see if the league accepts this latest bid, and where the Lakers will be in their roster-building by that point.
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