NBA's 2021 All-Star Game in Indianapolis is postponed for three years as Indiana experiences its deadliest month of the pandemic with 1,055 deaths and a surge in cases

Indianapolis will host the NBA All-Star weekend in 2024, the league said Wednesday, formally rescheduling the plans for that city to be the site of the league's mid-season showcase this season.

Cleveland will play host in 2022 and Salt Lake City will do so in 2023 - both of those sites and years previously announced. The next open spot on the league's All-Star calendar was 2024, which now belongs to Indianapolis.

The league said 'public health conditions prevented the Pacers, the NBA All-Star Host Committee and the NBA from appropriately planning and executing fan-focused All-Star activities in Indianapolis that were envisioned for this February.'

The new dates for Indianapolis' All-Star weekend: February 16-18, 2024.

Indianapolis will host the NBA All-Star weekend in 2024, the league said Wednesday, formally rescheduling the plans for that city to be the site of the league's mid-season showcase this season. In this file photo from the 2020 All-Star Game in Chicago, Sixers center Joel Embiid is seen winning the jump ball against the Lakers' Anthony Davis as Dallas' Luka Doncic watches

The All-Star Game will be back in Indianapolis in 2024 after the NBA rescheduled the event

'While we are disappointed that the NBA All-Star Game will not take place in Indianapolis in 2021, we are looking forward to the Pacers and the city hosting the game and surrounding events in 2024,' NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said.

The league said it is planning to revise this season's All-Star agenda, with those plans still to be announced.

Like most states, Indiana is facing a major surge in COVID-19 cases.

All but one of Indiana's counties are listed in the moderate and highest-risk categories of coronavirus spread as Wednesday's update from state health officials showed a 91 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations since the beginning of November.

Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement: 'While we are disappointed that the NBA All-Star Game will not take place in Indianapolis in 2021, we are looking forward to the Pacers and the city hosting the game and surrounding events in 2024'

The Indiana State Department of Health also added 63 more deaths to Indiana's pandemic toll, making November Indiana's deadliest COVID-19 month with 1,055 confirmed deaths. The previous monthly high for coronavirus deaths was 1,041 in April, when at most the state's moving seven-day average was 42 fatalities a day.

The additional deaths raised Indiana's pandemic total to 5,498 COVID-19 fatalities, including confirmed and presumed coronavirus infections, since March.

For the second consecutive week, the state health department listed 91 of the state's 92 counties in the highest two of its four risk levels in its weekly tracking map update released Wednesday. The agency assigned the most dangerous red rating to 17 counties scattered around the state. Only one county was listed in the less-serious yellow rating, while none received the lowest-level blue rating.

Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who was scheduled to take part in a Wednesday afternoon briefing on the state's coronavirus response, lifted most restrictions on businesses and crowds in late September.

In that time, Indiana's rates of new COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths began a steep increase. Hospitalizations have jumped 312 percent to a pandemic high of 3,363 patients as of Tuesday, and its seven-day rolling average COVID-19 deaths has jumped from 10 a day to 49.

The news had been expected for months. The league released hotel blocks for what would have been the 2021 All-Star weekend back in August and is in the process of finalizing a schedule for this season - which begins December 22. The league said it is planning to revise this season's All-Star agenda, with those plans still to be announced

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