Next Wednesday, Nov. 21, will be LeBron James' first game at Quicken Loans Arena as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers.

The King's lone appearance at The Q in 2018-19 is the Cavs' most anticipated game of the season, with get-in prices of $79 on Flash Seats and $95 on StubHub that are quite a turn from the single-digit listings that have been all too common the last few weeks.

The market for Cavs-Lakers, however, will pale in comparison to the 2022 NBA All-Star Game at The Q. That will be Year 19 for James in the NBA, and the fourth season of the four-year, $153.3 million deal he signed with the Lakers in July. And, as many snarky Twitter users pointed out after it was announced that Cleveland would be getting the 75th All-Star Game, James could be playing for a different team in 2021-22, since he has a $41,002,273 player option that season.

Regardless, LeBron, at age 37, playing an All-Star Game in Cleveland would be a spectacle.

"They will find a way to hype that extra special," said Roy Weinstein, the managing director of Micronomics, an L.A.-based economic research and consulting firm. "That will make (the spending) more incremental."

As we reported in this week's issue of Crain's, Weinstein projected that the 2018 NBA All-Star Game in L.A. had an economic impact of $116 million. The estimate for the 2022 All-Star festivities in Cleveland is $100 million, which David Gilbert, the president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, told us is probably conservative.

If you're among the many who are hoping to be in attendance at The Q on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, we have simple message: Good luck.

Sources have told us that the NBA's hold on the event is so strong that the Cavs, as of now, only have an available ticket allotment that is in the hundreds — the vast majority of which are upper-level seats.

The team, not wanting to jeopardize Cleveland's chances of landing the All-Star Game, only had so much bargaining power. The Cavs also are holding out hope that their All-Star ticket allotment will increase as the game draws closer, which is standard practice, a source said.

Based on conversations with other teams that have hosted the All-Star Game, the source estimated that the NBA often controls about 90% of the ticketing inventory. A few months before the game, the Cavs might get a few hundred more seats, along with the use of some suites for their premium ticket-holders and partners. A month before the game, they might get more, the source said.

Such a small allotment — 10% would equal a couple thousand available tickets at The Q — means the All-Star hosts often only have available seats for their biggest accounts and their top corporate partners.

Yes, it's a star-studded event. But the league is very much in control, and teams are more likely to lose money on the festivities than break even, we've been told.

Yet past hosts say the efforts are well worth it, because of the economic impact — the 2018 All-Star festivities were projected to bring in 110,000 visitors — and the NBA's emphasis on community.

"They really want to leave a legacy behind," Kathryn Schloessman, the president of the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission, told Crain's. "The NBA is really serious about it. What else can we do beyond the organization? It's not the typical stuff when they go into a city. They're pretty progressive about it. They want to engage the city. If you have people they feel like will do a good job of protecting their brand, they want to expand out and do things bigger and better."

Said Gilbert, the sports commission's president and CEO: "I do think the community component is where a big part of the legacy comes from in having these events."

Cities, Schloessman said, "wouldn't be spending money to get these events if they weren't showing impact."

The NBA All-Star Game — which will follow the 2019 MLB All-Star Game at Progressive Field and the 2020 return of March Madness to The Q, and occur a couple years before the Women's Final Four comes back to Cleveland — is a great thing for the region.

But you might have to jump through a hoop or two to get a seat.

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