What Does "$100 Million in Economic Impact" Even Mean?

A certain financial figure is being thrown around Cleveland in relation to its hosting of the 71st NBA All-Star Game, and it's one that appears to have come out of thin air.

Cleveland will host the NBA All-Star game later this month, which will offer plenty of coastal elites flocking to city to tweet complaints about having to wear a coat outside during February in Ohio while aspiring NBA groupies try to get drafted at Barley House, which will be a level of comedic content unwitnessed in America since the Trump-Clinton deba…