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    Boston has endured a more than 20-year All-Star Game drought thanks to the Celtics.

    Less than a month will pass before the 2023 NBA All-Star Game, but Boston is already thinking about 2026. The Boston Celtics intend to submit a bid to host the NBA All-Star Game at TD Garden in 2026, according to TNT.

    If the C’s won the bid, it’d be the first All-Star game of any kind in Boston in over two decades, and the first NBA All-Star Game there in more than 60 years. Last year’s NBA All-Star Game was held in Cleveland and this year it’s in Salt Lake City, so it’s clear that the decision-makers wouldn’t be opposed to having the festivities in a relatively small city.

    While it’s hard to predict which players could partake in the potential Boston All-Star Game, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are two Celtics who appear to be shoo-ins for 2023.

    Tatum is third in fan voting for frontcourt players in the Eastern Conference, and the latest poll has him fairly ahead of fourth-place Joel Embiid. If the voting ended today, he’d be an All-Star starter due to Kevin Durant’s current injury problems.

    Also in third place is Brown, who has moved up to the top-ranked guards in the Eastern Conference. While Tatum is getting a lot of MVP talk, the former All-Star reserve is having an impressive season as well. He even cashed a clutch 3-pointer on Thursday night to send the Celtics to overtime with the rival Golden State Warriors.

    With the help of Tatum’s career-high rebounding performance and Al Horford’s best game of the season, the C’s were able to take down the defending champs for the first time since Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Finals.

    Although anything can happen between now and 2026, it wouldn’t be surprising if Tatum and Brown were playing in that All-Star Game as well as the 2023 iteration.

    Source: https://clutchpoints.com

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