faba Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Report: Suns, Nuggets will play October game in open-air arena ESPN.com news services Updated: February 19, 2008, 10:17 AM ET Taking a page out of the NHL's playbook, the NBA is heading to the great outdoors when the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets square off in an October exhibition game, according to a published report. [+] Enlarge Donald Miralle/Getty Images Indian Wells Tennis Garden will host the Oct. 11 Suns-Nuggets exhibition game. The matchup will be held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., on Oct. 11, The Arizona Republic reports. The stadium seats 16,100 fans and annually hosts the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament. According to the newspaper, the Suns visited the game site last summer and put down a basketball court on the tennis surface. The Suns are also expected to bring a scoreboard and video boards for the game. An official announcement of the game is expected Tuesday. Once before, according to the paper, an NBA game has been played outdoors. Phoenix was also part of that event when it faced Milwaukee in Puerto Rico in 1972. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildthing2022000 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 They should play on a street court, now that would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I have no problem with this....they should do an All-Star game like this also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 That would be pretty awesome. The Hockey game outdoors was great so this should be tried too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 they should play a regular season game outdoors instead of an exhibition game-that makes no sense to do it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 they should play a regular season game outdoors instead of an exhibition game-that makes no sense to do it that way. Yeah, competitive games would definetly be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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