{"id":181352,"date":"2016-07-22T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/22\/nba-does-the-right-thing\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:01:00","slug":"nba-does-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/22\/nba-does-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Does the Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather shocked that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/sports\/wp\/2016\/07\/21\/report-nba-will-move-2017-all-star-game-from-charlotte-to-new-orleans-over-hb2-law\/\">NBA is pulling the 2017 All Star Game from Charlotte because of North Carolina&#8217;s anti-gay law<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect sports leagues to do the right thing, so I am pleasantly surprised:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The NBA announced Thursday it will move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte due to North Carolina\u2019s law that bars local governments from extending civil rights protections to gay and transgender people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe NBA has decided to relocate the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte with the hope of rescheduling for 2019,\u201d the league said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhile we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2,\u201d as the law is commonly known.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather shocked that the NBA is pulling the 2017 All Star Game from Charlotte because of North Carolina&#8217;s anti-gay law. I don&#8217;t expect sports leagues to do the right thing, so I am pleasantly surprised: The NBA announced Thursday it will move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte due to North Carolina\u2019s law that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1020,1030,1057,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-sports","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}