NBA: No All-Star Game for North Carolina


From left: NBA commissioner Adam Silver with Charlotte Hornets owner and retired NBA great Michael Jordan when they announced last year that the 2017 All-Star Game would be held in Charlotte.

From left: NBA commissioner Adam Silver with Charlotte Hornets owner and retired NBA great Michael Jordan when they announced last year that the 2017 All-Star Game would be held in Charlotte.

After having said last week that no decision had been made on pulling next year’s NBA All-Star Game from North Carolina, the league’s commissioner now says the game definitely will be moved if the state’s recently enacted anti-LGBT law isn’t changed.

“We’ve been, I think, crystal clear a change in the law is necessary for us to play in the kind of environment that we think is appropriate for a celebratory NBA event,” commissioner Adam Silver said today at the Associated Press Sports Editors’ commissioner meetings in New York City, The Charlotte Observer reports.

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  1. johnson catman says

    I am sure the “pro-business” republicans in Raleigh will whine about how everyone is just trying to bully them because of their beliefs. With not a hint of irony or self-awareness of course.

  2. says

    Oh yes, they’ve already said as much. Fuck, McCrory has called it extortion. He has quite the wannabe-persecution complex.

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