Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today welcomed NBA basketball players, coaches, and staff, as well as basketball fans from around the country, to the Greater Dallas Metroplex.  The Metroplex will host the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, February 14; events will be held at both the new Cowboys Stadium and the American Airlines Center, home of the Mavericks.  Congresswoman Johnson introduced a resolution recognizing the NBA All-Star Game on February 2.

“Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game at the brand new, state-of-the-art Cowboys Stadium is sure to be a memorable one,” Congresswoman Johnson said.  “It is a great honor for the Dallas-Fort Worth region to host the game, and my resolution recognizes the pride that North Texans feel in hosting the event.”

The bi-partisan resolution has 50 co-sponsors, including Representatives Joe Barton, Michael Burgess, Kay Granger, Jeb Hensarling, Sam Johnson, Kenny Marchant and Pete Sessions.

The full text of the resolution follows:

Whereas the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star brings together the very best professional basketball players in the Nation for 48 minutes of intense competition and sterling athletic achievements;

Whereas the annual All-Star Game is one of the highlights of the NBA season and a major sports event of the year;

Whereas the game annually is played on the home court of one of the NBA member teams and is a sought-after event by the teams and the cities they represent;

Whereas the Dallas Mavericks play their home games at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and are the host team for 2010 NBA All-Star Game, to be played on Sunday Afternoon, February 14, 2010;

Whereas this is the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, an exhibition basketball game that will be played on February 14, 2010, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys;

Whereas this is the first time the Greater Dallas Metroplex area has had the distinction of where All-Star events are split between two venues since 1989;

Whereas this will be the first All-Star Game to be played in a football stadium since 1996, when San Antonio’s Alamodome hosted the event; and

Whereas the weekend of the All-Star Game has been declared NBA All-Star Weekend in the Greater Metroplex region, in recognition of the area’s role in this year’s All-Star competition: Now, therefore, be it

1  Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
2 (1) recognizes the National Basketball Associa
3 tion’s (NBA) All-Star Game in the Greater Dallas
4 Metroplex, the 2010 All-Stars, and all those associ
5 ated with the All-Star events; and
6  (2) express its hope that the 59th annual All-
7  Star Game will be the most exciting and successful
8 in the history of the event.

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U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and a senior member of the Science Committee. She represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which, includes Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, Oak Lawn, Old East Dallas, Pleasant Grove, & South Oak Cliff; all of Balch Springs, DeSoto, Hutchins, Lancaster & Wilmer and parts of Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Ferris, Glenn Heights and Ovilla.