US EditionNBA Player Luke Kornet Calls on Hawks to Cancel Promotion with Magic City Adult Entertainment Club
San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet criticizes the Hawks' promotion for potentially normalizing objectification of women and calls for higher league standards.
- Monday's Medium post from Luke Kornet, San Antonio Spurs center, urged the Hawks to reconsider Magic City Monday scheduled for March 16 against the Orlando Magic.
- Last week the Hawks announced a Magic City-themed game, framing the Atlanta strip club as a cultural institution without referencing its adult-entertainment status.
- The in-arena experience will feature a T.I. halftime show, a live pregame podcast with DC Young Fly and Michael 'Mr. Magic' Barney, Magic City Kitchen wings, limited-edition apparel, and ticket access.
- So far the Hawks have not canceled the promotion, and Kornet said he hopes NBA and league officials and fans on social media will weigh in amid the backlash.
- Looking beyond one game, Kornet's warnings raise questions about league standards and whether the NBA risks being 'could make the league "complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society"' in family-friendly arenas.
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NBA Player Urges Hawks to Cancel 'Magic City Monday'
An NBA player is urging the Atlanta Hawks to rethink a promotion that gives a wink to one of the city's most famous strip clubs, the Los Angeles Times reports. San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet published a statement on Medium asking the team to scrap its "Magic City Monday"...
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Last week, the Atlanta Hawks made an unusually special announcement. In their promotional schedule, they added the Orlando Magic game on March 16 as “Magic City Monday.” Before we go into the details about what it all means and why it is under heavy scrutiny, here’s a trip down memory lane. Remember Lou Williams and his controversial visit to Magic City, a strip club, during the NBA Bubble on an excused absence? Yes, in his defense, he later ex…
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Spurs' Luke Kornet Asks Hawks To Cancel "Magic City Night" & Gets Roasted Instead
Source: To many people, last week’s announcement that the Atlanta Hawks were teaming up with Magic City was either surprising or seen as satire. But apparently, some NBA players had neither reaction and actually took offense to the partnership, with the only one brave enough to speak out being Luke Kornet. The San Antonio Spurs center, fresh off a beating from the New York Knicks, wrote a post on Medium explaining why he can’t get behind the Ha…
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