{"id":187573,"date":"2026-03-11T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:51:07","slug":"orange-county-pledges-35m-for-orlandos-nba-asw-olympic-qualifiers-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187573\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County pledges $35M for Orlando\u2019s NBA ASW, Olympic qualifiers bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Orange County commissioners \u201cpledged to spend\u201d $35M in public money to \u201chelp Orlando host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/03\/orlando-to-submit-nba-asg-bid-in-april-targeting-three-year-window\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/03\/orlando-to-submit-nba-asg-bid-in-april-targeting-three-year-window\/\">future NBA All Star Week<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/25\/orlando-bidding-to-host-final-stop-of-2028-olympic-qualifier-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/25\/orlando-bidding-to-host-final-stop-of-2028-olympic-qualifier-series\/\">Olympic qualifying competitions in 2028<\/a>\u201d &#8212; if the Greater Orlando Sports Commission\u2019s bids win hosting rights, according to Stephen Hudak of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. Commissioners \u201cexpressed excitement about the possibility of having a longer hoops festival,\u201d before voting unanimously to approve both conditional funding requests from their tourist-tax fund. The board followed last week\u2019s \u201cthumbs-up recommendations\u201d of the Tourist Development Council, an advisory panel of tourist industry figures whose members also include Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. The Sports Commission asked for $20M to stage the weeklong NBA basketball showcase and $15M for the Olympic qualifying competitions to pay for \u201cvenue staffing, event security, public safety and other costs related to hosting the events.\u201d Promoters of the game and its featured events, including skills competitions like the slam-dunk contest, said that it \u201cdraws large global broadcast audiences.\u201d An accompanying fanfest, which \u201clikely would be held at the Convention Center,\u201d could \u201clure overnight guests.\u201d Hudak noted \u201cno public money would be spent if the Sports Commission doesn\u2019t win its bids\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/10\/orange-county-commission-oks-35-million-in-bids-for-nba-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County commissioners \u201cpledged to spend\u201d $35M in public money to \u201chelp Orlando host a future NBA All&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3108,77225,2295,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-187573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-basketball","tag-la28","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}