Charlotte City Council renews 2017 offer for 2019 All-Star Game

The jilted city of Charlotte remains committed to bringing the NBA All-Star Game to town.

The city was initially awarded All-Star Weekend for 2017, but the NBA opted to move the game to New Orleans after North Carolina legislators failed to repeal or amend a controversial bill (HB2) that limited protections for the state's LGBT community. The league did, however, leave the door open for the festivities to be held in Charlotte in 2019 (the 2018 event was awarded to Los Angeles), contingent on an "appropriate resolution" to HB2.

On Monday night, Charlotte City Council voted to offer the NBA the same incentives for All-Star 2019 that had been agreed upon for 2017, Steve Harrison of the Charlotte Observer reports.

The primary incentive in the deal is that the city and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority jointly agreed to spend up to $600,000 to support the weekend festivities.

"In an effort to avoid having to negotiate various agreements, including the City Services Agreement, from scratch, the NBA, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, the Hornets Basketball, LLC, and the city have developed a letter agreement that provides that the material terms and conditions of the agreements would apply in substantially similar force and effect with respect to the 2019 All-Star Game weekend, should the NBA award the game to Charlotte," the council said in its agenda.