Question: How many seats can the stadium originally planned to host the 2017 NBA All-Star Game hold for NBA games?

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1998 NBA All-Star Game: The 1998 NBA All-Star Game was the 48th edition of the North American National Basketball Association All-Star Game.  The event was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  The East won the game 135–114.  This game was the All-Star Game debut of Kobe Bryant, the youngest all-star in NBA history at 19 years of age, and rookie Tim Duncan.  Bryant had a team-high 18 points.  Michael Jordan earned MVP honors, scoring 23 points, grabbing 6 rebounds, and dishing out 8 assists despite having the flu.  This was Jordan's third MVP award.The Game featured four all-stars from the Los Angeles Lakers.  The Western Conference was coached by George Karl from the Seattle SuperSonics and the Eastern Conference was coached by Larry Bird of the Indiana Pacers.  This marks the only All-Star game to feature both Kobe Bryant, who was the youngest player in NBA history to be in the all-star game and Michael Jordan in which Jordan was with the Chicago Bulls.  Jordan came out of retirement one final time in 2001 and played two more seasons (and selected to the All-Star team both years) for the Washington Wizards.  Grant Hill and Michael Jordan shot the best field goal percentages this game when comparing players who shot ten or more shots.  Grant Hill was 7/11 from the field and he knocked down a three (.636%).  Michael Jordan was 10/18 from the field and he also knocked down one three (.556%).

Spectrum Center (arena): Spectrum Center (formerly Time Warner Cable Arena) is an indoor arena located in center city Charlotte, North Carolina.  It is owned by the city of Charlotte and operated by its main tenant, the NBA's Charlotte Hornets.  Opened in October 2005, the arena seats 19,077 for NBA games but can be expanded to seat up to 20,200 for college basketball games.

2010 NBA All-Star Game: The 2010 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game between players selected from the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Western Conference and the Eastern Conference that was played on February 14, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas United States.  This game was the 59th edition of the NBA All-Star Game and was played during the 2009–10 NBA season.  This was the second time that the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area had hosted the All-Star Game; the area had previously hosted the event in 1986.  Dallas was awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on October 30, 2008.

2017 NBA All-Star Game: The 2017 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 19, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Smoothie King Center.  It was the 66th edition of the event.  The West won the game 192-182.  The MVP of the game was Anthony Davis, who scored 52 points, the most ever scored by a player in an All-Star Game.  It was initially planned to be held at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, home of the Charlotte Hornets.  If the game had remained in Charlotte, it would have been the second time that Charlotte hosted the All-Star Game.  The city previously hosted in 1991 at the now-demolished Charlotte Coliseum.

2016 NBA All-Star Game: The 2016 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 14, 2016.  It was the 65th NBA All-Star Game.  The Western Conference won 196–173 over the Eastern Conference, and Russell Westbrook was named the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP).  It was held at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, home of the Toronto Raptors.  The Raptors were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement on September 30, 2013.  This was the first time that the game was held outside the United States.  TSN and Sportsnet televised the game nationally in Canada, while TNT and TBS televised the game nationally in the United States.  This was also the 18th and final All-Star Game in which Kobe Bryant participated, as a result of his retirement after the 2015–16 season.

NBA All-Star Weekend H–O–R–S–E Competition: The NBA All-Star H–O–R–S–E Competition (also called the NBA All–Star G–E–I–C–O Competition because of its sponsor, Geico Insurance) was a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest which began at the 2009 NBA All–Star Weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, and only lasted for two years.  It was canceled from the All-Star festivities prior to the 2011 weekend.  The contest had been held on the Saturday night prior to the All-Star Game.  The NBA had held H–O–R–S–E competitions during the .  Throughout that season, CBS broadcast NBA games during the regular season and the playoffs.  The host was Don Criqui and the NBA official was retired referee Mendy Rudolph.  There were a total of 32 players and the finals had a match up of Pete Maravich verse Paul Westphal.  Maravich was injured and replaced by Rick Barry who lost to Westphal.  During halftime of those games, they showed a pre-taped H–O–R–S–E tournament pitting players from the NBA against each other.  It featured, among others, Pete Maravich, Bob McAdoo, Kevin Grevey, and George Gervin.  There was also a Battle of the Sexes match where Karen Logan, a female, beat Jerry West in 1975 and was matched against Oscar Robertson where she took a 7-0 lead.  Her claim was that they changed the rules and she lost 10-8.

2016–17 NBA season: The 2016–17 NBA season was the 71st season of the National Basketball Association.  The regular season began on October 25, 2016, with the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers hosting a game against the New York Knicks.  Christmas Day games were played on Sunday December 25, 2016.  The 2017 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 19, 2017, with the West defeating the East 192–182.  Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans was named the All Star Game MVP after breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record by scoring 52 points in the All Star Game.  The original host of the game, Charlotte's Spectrum Center, was removed as the host on July 21, 2016 due to the league's opposition against North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.  The regular season ended on April 12, 2017, and the playoffs began on April 15, 2017 and ended on June 12, 2017, with the Golden State Warriors going 16-1 in the playoffs and beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games during their third consecutive matchup in the NBA Finals.

1997 NBA All-Star Game: The 1997 NBA All-Star Game was the 47th edition of the All-Star Game and commemorated the 50th anniversary of NBA.  The game was played on February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena (now known as Quicken Loans Arena) in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.  The winner of the MVP award was Glen Rice of the Charlotte Hornets who played 25 minutes and scored 26 points while breaking two records in the process, 20 points in the third quarter and 24 points in the second half.  Rice's 20 points in the period broke Hal Greer's record (19), set in 1968.  Rice's 24 points in a half surpassed the previous mark of 23, owned by Wilt Chamberlain and Tom Chambers.  Michael Jordan's 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists were the first and, until the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, the only triple-double in NBA All-Star Game history (LeBron James (2011), Dwyane Wade (2012), and Kevin Durant (2017) have also achieved this).  Five players (Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, Shaquille O’Neal) who were voted or selected for the team opted out due to injury, opening the doors for the annually neglected and the new stars—Joe Dumars, Detlef Schrempf, Chris Webber, Chris Gatling and 20-year-old second-year man Kevin Garnett took their spots.

2012 NBA All-Star Game: The 2012 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game which was played on February 26, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. EST at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, home of the Orlando Magic.  This game was the 61st edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 2011–12 NBA season.  The Orlando Magic were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on May 4, 2010.  This was also the second time that Orlando has hosted the All-Star Game; the city had previously hosted the event in 1992 in the Orlando Arena, the Magic's previous home arena.  This game also marked the first time an Eastern Conference city hosted an All-Star game since Atlanta in 2003.  Despite the 2011 NBA lockout, which reduced the regular season to sixty-six games on a condensed schedule, the All-Star Game took place as scheduled.  The Western Conference team defeated the Eastern Conference team 152–149.

1951 NBA All-Star Game: The 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, home of the Boston Celtics.  The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950–51 NBA season.  The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff, NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown.  At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.  In order to regain public attention to the league, Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league's best players, similar to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.  Although most people, including Podoloff, were pessimistic about the idea, Brown remained confident that it would be a success.  He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game.  The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111–94.  Boston Celtics' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.  The game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10,094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3,500.

Supporting paragraphs: 2017 NBA All-Star Game Spectrum Center (arena)
Answer: 19,077