{"id":68545,"date":"2026-03-09T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/nba-cancels-atlanta-hawks-theme-night-with-strip-club-magic-city-after-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:55:28","slug":"nba-cancels-atlanta-hawks-theme-night-with-strip-club-magic-city-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/nba-cancels-atlanta-hawks-theme-night-with-strip-club-magic-city-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA cancels Atlanta Hawks\u2019 theme night with strip club Magic City after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Commissioner: League heard \u2018significant concerns\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spurs\u2019 Kornet had penned post against promotion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NBA has called off the Atlanta Hawks\u2019 plans for a night celebrating the city\u2019s famed Magic City strip club, saying it did so because of \u201cconcerns\u201d from many across the league.<\/p>\n<p> Atlanta announced the plan last month, saying the team would pay tribute to an \u201ciconic cultural institution\u201d with food \u2013 including the club\u2019s famous lemon pepper wings \u2013 along with a live music performance by Atlanta native TI and exclusive merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>After the Hawks announced plans for the promotion, San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/02\/atlanta-hawks-magic-city-strip-club-theme-night-nba\">spoke out about the idea<\/a> and urged the parties involved to reconsider. And the league evidently heard the same messaging from others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/09\/nba-cancels-atlanta-hawks-magic-city-theme-night-strip-club\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner: League heard \u2018significant concerns\u2019 Spurs\u2019 Kornet had penned post against promotion The NBA has called off the Atlanta Hawks\u2019 plans for a night celebrating the city\u2019s famed Magic City strip club, saying it did so because of \u201cconcerns\u201d from many across the league. Atlanta announced the plan last month, saying the team would pay &#8230; <a title=\"NBA cancels Atlanta Hawks\u2019 theme night with strip club Magic City after backlash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/nba-cancels-atlanta-hawks-theme-night-with-strip-club-magic-city-after-backlash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA cancels Atlanta Hawks\u2019 theme night with strip club Magic City after backlash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}