Article: Full-court press in Las Vegas.

Byline: Benjamin Spillman

Jan. 14--If there was ever a time to spend $3,500 on a multicolored, studded, premium leather jacket with a National Basketball Association logo, it is now.

Jim Simonson, owner of Front Row Sports in the Fashion Show mall, has already sold 19 of them. And with the NBA's annual All-Star Game scheduled to tip off Feb. 18 at the Thomas & Mack Center, he expects to sell more of the flashy jackets.

The same goes for NBA-themed golf bags, Las Vegas All-Star Game T-shirts, hats and backpacks.

"With the crowd that will be in town, they will be all over that," said Simonson of the jacket by JH Design of Los Angeles.

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