NBA: No All-Star Game for North Carolina If Anti-LGBT Law Isn't Changed

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NBA: No All-Star Game for North Carolina If Anti-LGBT Law Isn't Changed

http://www.advocate.com/sports/2016/4/21/nba-no-all-star-game-north-carolina-if-anti-lgbt-law-isnt-changed

The Advocate.com
By Trudy Ring
April 21 2016 6:18 PM EDT


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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The NBA has taken a stand though Commissioner Adam Silver says that the NBA is still pursuing "constructive engagement" with state officials.