NBA says fuck North Carolina, pulls 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte

[cnc]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba-pu...arlotte-focuses-on-new-orleans-190148437.html


NBA pulls 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, focuses on New Orleans
Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.

The NBA is focused on the New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center as the host for All-Star Weekend and the All-Star Game on Feb. 19, league sources told The Vertical.

For now, there are still other cities trying to lure the All-Star Game, sources said.

A formal announcement on the NBA’s withdrawal out of Charlotte is expected as soon as this week, league sources said Thursday.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so has run out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.

The issue is centered on North Carolina’s House Bill 2, a law that mandates transgender people use public restrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates. The law also omits LGBT people from North Carolina’s anti-discrimination protections, forbids local governments from widening LGBT protections and excludes all forms of workplace discrimination lawsuits from North Carolina state courts.

Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan had been counting on All-Star Weekend as a signature event for his franchise, and the economic impact of losing the All-Star Game for the franchise and region promises to be dramatic.

The NBA had discussed moving the All-Star Game to the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, sources said, but scheduling conflicts at the facility became part of the reason the idea never advanced past high-level league conversations during the Las Vegas summer league this month, sources said.

New Orleans hosted the All-Star Game in 2008 and 2014.

 

[Amajorfucup]

 

[BDR]

NC stay losing

 

[850credit]

Kinda glad they didn't pick Atlanta. People came down south and acted a fool here last time. I guess some peoples still associate Atlanta with Freaknick cause that's what it turned into lol...

 

[Mask]

Damn

 

[ugk]

So they gonna move it to New Orleans? Not far from where Alton Sterling was murdered by police?

Pretty much sums up civil rights in today's age.

 

[yasky777]

Kinda glad they didn't pick Atlanta. People came down south and acted a fool here last time. I guess some peoples still associate Atlanta with Freaknick cause that's what it turned into lol...

You sound mad?

 

[JimJones]

Damn... This is a huge lost for NC and the east coast as folks from up and down the coast would be there.

 

[Tha Great Muta]

Good!!!!! I like how there is no mention of that bullshit ass body cam law. Fuck em.

 

[Mo-Better]

NC stay losing

Deservedly so because the problems in NC is do to who the voters put in office. So let the state continue taking Ls.

 

[KingTaharqa]

 

[REDLINE]

They're standing up for" Gay/Transgenger" issues but WNBA players wear a black t-shirt supporting BLM and those murdered by police and the teams and players get fined....interesting.

 

[Ill Paragraph]

Peace,

They're standing up for" Gay/Transgenger" issues but WNBA players wear a black t-shirt supporting BLM and those murdered by police and the teams and players get fined....interesting.

Exactly. Fuck the NBA, and fuck putting gay rights ahead of our right to live.

 

[BrownTurd]

But black players get fined for black lives matters. The players better say something

 

[simonmarcel]

I was beginning to think the NBA was going to let this blow over with all the attention on more serious issues nowadays. But I guess I was wrong.

 

[lazarus]

If the state had any brains and TRULY were concerned, they would make a law to have all new public buildings have at least one family bathroom.

 

[CurtDawg]

North Carolina been taking L's since Governor Pat McCrory been in office
I'll be glad when this mofo is gone in November
But on the real.....these stupid ass backwards white people are the ones who voted this Republican clown into office
PLUS they voted for a Republican Senator
PLUS they voted for Republicans in the house
So fuck em
Let them see how little fucks Republicans have for the working middle class people

 

[God's Gift]

Maybe this fucking chopper jean short set wearing bastid will finally make a public stand on an issue.

 

[Damn Right]

Peace,



Exactly. Fuck the NBA, and fuck putting gay rights ahead of our right to live.

silver's response when asked about the fines in the wnba;

“My preference would be that players adhere to our uniform rules, both in the N.B.A. and the W.N.B.A,” he said, adding, “I would greatly prefer that the players use the platform they’re given, social media, press conferences, media in locker rooms, however they want to do it, to make their political points of view be known.”

if I were one of the girls i'd be like 'okay' then get my black lives matter mantra on to the media in the locker room and at after game press conferences. unless you're ready and willing to quite your job and the wnba, find out what you're allowed to do contractually then work within those parameters.

 

[UNSEEN]

They're standing up for" Gay/Transgenger" issues but WNBA players wear a black t-shirt supporting BLM and those murdered by police and the teams and players get fined....interesting.

Great thinking...

 

[DC_Dude]

Damn NC? ?? Yall that stupid?? All the money from tax revenues those CACs down there are stupid.

 

[Complex]

Damn... This is a huge lost for NC and the east coast as folks from up and down the coast would be there.

Deservedly so because the problems in NC is do to who the voters put in office. So let the state continue taking Ls.

Maybe this fucking chopper jean short set wearing bastid will finally make a public stand on an issue.

I was thinking the same thing

silver's response when asked about the fines in the wnba;

“My preference would be that players adhere to our uniform rules, both in the N.B.A. and the W.N.B.A,” he said, adding, “I would greatly prefer that the players use the platform they’re given, social media, press conferences, media in locker rooms, however they want to do it, to make their political points of view be known.”

if I were one of the girls i'd be like 'okay' then get my black lives matter mantra on to the media in the locker room and at after game press conferences. unless you're ready and willing to quite your job and the wnba, find out what you're allowed to do contractually then work within those parameters.

They have fucking advertisements on the jerseys

 

[cocobeauty]

So they gonna move it to New Orleans? Not far from where Alton Sterling was murdered by police?

Pretty much sums up civil rights in today's age.

What does one have to do with the other?

 

[Esther]

Kinda glad they didn't pick Atlanta. People came down south and acted a fool here last time. I guess some peoples still associate Atlanta with Freaknick cause that's what it turned into lol...

It's freaknick every weekend in Atlanta.

 

[Maxxam]

 

[playahaitian]

I hate to admit this but I STILL don't even understand this law.

 

[simonmarcel]

What does one have to do with the other?

 

[simonmarcel]

I hate to admit this but I STILL don't even understand this law.

I think it basically says you have to use the bathroom of your birth sex. You can't go into the woman's bathroom if you used to be a man.

 

[Maxxam]

NBA and OJ 2.0 haven't said anything about this voting fuckery in NC


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZV13L

 

[phanatic]

This is actually appropriate in this case. All of the power and connections Jordan has in NC, and he took an L by the LGBT squad.

 

[Louis Koo]

fuck that backward ass southern state

 

[Mt. Yukon]

NC stay losing

Im honestly glad they did this. Now some of those borderline repubs that arent in love with their party at the moment can see what happens when you try to force your set of values on other people. Once it starts to actually affect some real shit maybe then theyll understand that "liberals" arent so much about being anti religion,(although Im not religious) shits about not fucking up the money because your always looking in other people window trying to tell them how to live. Yeah Charlotte and the triangle are doing well. But the rest of the state aint. No jobs, and none really coming back either. You cant go out of your way to keep revenue out of the state.

 

[safado]

Well now I can collect on my lil bet...

 

[cocobeauty]

What I do??

 

[BDR]

Most appropriate meme lmaoo