{"id":5685,"date":"2013-09-30T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/toronto-to-host-2016-nba-all-star-game\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:53:00","slug":"toronto-to-host-2016-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/toronto-to-host-2016-nba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto to host 2016 NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (Sports Network) &#8211; The NBA announced Monday that Toronto has been selected to host the NBA All-Star Game in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time in the 65-year history of the event that the game will be held outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled that Toronto is hosting our first NBA All-Star Game outside the United States,&#8221; said NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver. &#8220;As the site of the first game ever in the NBA, Toronto is an ideal location for this global basketball celebration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game will be played on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 at Air Canada Centre, the home of the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the City of Toronto, we are thrilled about today&#8217;s announcement and will be honored to welcome the world to our city in 2016 for the NBA All- Star Game,&#8221; said Toronto mayor Rob Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015-16 season marks the Raptors&#8217; 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto hosted the first-ever NBA game on Nov. 1, 1946 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the New York Knickerbockers beat the hometown Huskies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (Sports Network) &#8211; The NBA announced Monday that Toronto has been selected to host the NBA All-Star Game in 2016. It will be the first time in the 65-year history of the event that the game will be held outside the United States. &#8220;We are thrilled that Toronto is hosting our first NBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[169,115,168],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}