At the owners meeting, there were no objections when they dicussed playing a future All-Star game in Las Vegas.

``It was well received,'' David Stern said of the Las Vegas idea. ``There was a general acceptance that this was a good idea.

``What's happening increasingly with our All-Star game is that because of its size and the stress we put on hotel stock, transportation, convention space, even movement, it may get to a place where a smaller number of cities can deal with it,'' Stern said. ``So that has left us open to the proposition that we would consider non-NBA cities.''