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Adam Silver Speaks on Potentially Moving 2017 NBA All-Star Game from Charlotte
- Updated: April 21, 2016
The 2017 NBA All-Star Game remains scheduled to take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, but NBA Commissioner Adam Silver admitted Thursday that it is far from set in stone.
According to Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post, Silver said that unless the controversial laws that were recently passed in North Carolina are changed, the NBA will be forced to take the All-Star Game elsewhere.
Per Tal Kopan and Eugene Scott of CNN.com, the laws prevent transgender people from using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity and also restricts the passing of nondiscrimination laws within cities.
Silver previously called the laws “problematic” with regard to the NBA allowing Charlotte to host the All-Star Game, according to ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk:
By no means are we saying we are stepping back. The message is not that the …
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