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Balloting partners returning from last year’s program include America Online, Champs Sports, Foot Locker, Reebok, Sprite and Verizon Wireless.
A new All-Star Balloting television commercial, which will feature characters from Twentieth Century Fox movie Fat Albert, opening nationwide December 25th, and NBA Legend Bill Walton, will air during NBA games on ABC, TNT, ESPN, and NBA TV, in movie theater lobbies and other NBA programming. An All-Star Balloting promotional screen will be seen before previews at participating Loews theaters and a Fat Albert print ad will appear on paper ballots.
NBA All-Star Balloting will tip-off on November 18 and runs until January 23. The 2005 NBA All-Star Game, which will air live on TNT, ESPN Radio and in over 200 countries around the world, takes place on Sunday, February 20, 2005 in Denver at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Fans can vote for the starters of the 2005 NBA All-Star Game in the following ways:
In-Arena Ballots presented by Sprite
NBA All-Star Balloting activities will take place in arenas for all 30 NBA teams. In-arena ballots presented by Sprite will feature a panel devoted to the home team where the team will promote their potential All-Stars, ticket packages, community initiatives or allow a team sponsor to use the space for their promotion.
NBA.com
Fans can vote once per day in any of 19 languages on the NBA.com Network which includes nine country-specific/in-language destinations of NBA.com (Brasil, Canada, China, Español, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the UK) and the league’s 30 team sites. The languages offered include Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Verizon Wireless Downloadable Ballots
Verizon Wireless subscribers can vote daily for the All-Star starters via a wireless ballot downloaded free through Verizon Wireless' GET IT NOW service.
Foot Locker and Champs Sports Stores NBA All-Star Balloting voting centers will be set up in 2,100 Foot Locker and Champs Sports stores across the U.S. and Champ Sports stores in Canada (excluding Quebec).
Loews Cineplex Entertainment Movie Theaters
Voting will take place at approximately 150 Loews Cineplex movie theatres throughout the U.S. in Loews Theatres, Magic Johnson Theatres, Cineplex Odeon and Star Theatres during the Holiday movie release schedule, one of the motion picture industry’s busiest seasons.
NBA is partnering with the Twentieth Century Fox production Fat Albert to promote the All-Star Balloting program in 150 Loews Cineplex Entertainment movie theatres. Bill Cosby's beloved characters make their way to movie theaters nationwide in an all-new, live-action motion picture. The FAT ALBERT movie, like the famed series, is based on Mr. Cosby's stand-up comedy monologues about his growing up with his friends in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The movie adds an exciting new twist to the characters by having the boys step out into the "real world," becoming flesh-and-blood, and face challenges they couldn't have dreamed of as cartoon figures. Plus, the characters' "old-school" '50s-era sensibility makes them fish out of water in today's world.
Promotional Support and Fan Offerings
Twentieth Century Fox will present an in-theater sweepstakes at participating Loews Theaters that will give fans the chance to win four tickets to the 2005 NBA All-Star Game.
A new sweepstakes available on in-arena, online, wireless and Champ Sports ballots entitled “Live the All-Star Life” will give fans from the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) the opportunity to win VIP All-Star Game tickets, stay at the NBA Legends’ hotel, tour the locker rooms and attend media sessions and practices.
Ballots in Foot Locker stores will offer fans the opportunity to win a trip for two to NBA All-Star 2005 to compete in a three-point shootout against an NBA player.
Fans will have the opportunity to receive a special coupon for $20 off a purchase of $100 or more from Foot Locker or Champs Sports from ballots in-arena and at movie theaters.
Ballots in movie theaters will also feature a coupon for a free upgrade to the next size with the purchase of a small or regular Coca-Cola fountain beverage.
NBA All-Star 2005 will take place in Denver with festivities beginning on February culminating with the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, February 20th at 8 p.m. (ET). Fans will be able to see NBA players and celebrities at a variety of events including NBA All-Star Jam Session, NBA All-Star Saturday Night and a variety of events and activities throughout the week.
