Miami Heat To Host 2028 NBA All-Star Game

The NBA All-Star Game is returning to Downtown Miami. The Miami Heat will host the 2028 NBA All-Star Game, bringing the league’s midseason showcase back to Miami for the first time since 1990.

It marks a long-awaited return for a market that has grown into one of the NBA’s marquee destinations since it last hosted the event nearly four decades ago. With the Heat reshaping their roster around a new era of contention, the city will get a chance to put its basketball culture on full display on one of the sport’s biggest weekends.

The 2028 event continues a run of the NBA rotating its All-Star Weekend through a mix of established and newer host markets. Below is a look back at every All-Star Game host from 2027 all the way to 1990, the last time Miami held the event.

NBA All-Star Game Hosts, 1990 to 2027

• 2027: Phoenix
• 2026: Los Angeles (Clippers, Intuit Dome)
• 2025: San Francisco
• 2024: Indianapolis
• 2023: Salt Lake City (Utah)
• 2022: Cleveland
• 2021: Atlanta
• 2020: Chicago
• 2019: Charlotte
• 2018: Los Angeles
• 2017: New Orleans
• 2016: Toronto
• 2015: New York
• 2014: New Orleans
• 2013: Houston
• 2012: Orlando
• 2011: Los Angeles
• 2010: Dallas
• 2009: Phoenix
• 2008: New Orleans
• 2007: Las Vegas
• 2006: Houston
• 2005: Denver
• 2004: Los Angeles
• 2003: Atlanta
• 2002: Philadelphia
• 2001: Washington
• 2000: Oakland
• 1998: New York
• 1997: Cleveland
• 1996: San Antonio
• 1995: Phoenix
• 1994: Minneapolis
• 1993: Salt Lake City
• 1992: Orlando
• 1991: Charlotte
• 1990: Miami

There was no All-Star Game in 1999 due to the lockout-shortened season.