Ex-Celtic Luke Kornet calls out Hawks over ‘Magic City’ promo

Former Celtic heart Luke Kornet is taking umbrage with one of many Atlanta Hawks’ upcoming promotional nights. 

Kornet — who now performs for the San Antonio Spurs — took to his personal Medium weblog to ask the Hawks to rethink their “Magic Metropolis Evening” promo for his or her sport in opposition to the Orlando Magic on March 16. 

Magic Metropolis is a well-liked strip membership in Atlanta that has additionally gained notoriety for its hyperlink to town’s leisure and music scene — as well as its chicken wings. 

During the press release announcing the promotion, the Hawks labeled Magic Metropolis as an “iconic cultural establishment.”

In his weblog publish, titled “Concerning the Atlanta Hawks,” Kornet objected to the truth that the Hawks’ press launch didn’t point out that Magic Metropolis was a strip membership. 

“The NBA ought to want to guard and esteem ladies, a lot of whom work diligently on daily basis to make this the most effective basketball league on the planet,” Kornet wrote. “We should always promote an environment that’s protecting and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, moms, and companions that we all know and love. 

“Permitting this night time to go ahead with out protest would mirror poorly on us as an NBA neighborhood, particularly in being complicit within the potential objectification and mistreatment of ladies in our society. No matter how a girl finds her method into the grownup leisure business, many on this area expertise abuse, harassment, and violence to which they need to by no means be subjected.”

As a part of the promotion, Atlanta-based rapper T.I. is ready to carry out on the Hawks’ State Farm Enviornment for the March 16 sport. Magic Metropolis’s lemon pepper wings, the Louwill Lemon Pepper BBQ — named after former NBA Sixth Man of the Yr winner Lou Williams — may also be served through the sport. 

In closing, Kornet careworn that each the Hawks and NBA ought to rethink the promotion earlier than the sport is held. 

“I’d wish to encourage the league, its house owners, workers and followers to carry the Atlanta Hawks to the next customary of what they discover worthy of selling,” Kornet wrote. “I and others all through the league had been shocked by and object to the Hawks’ resolution. We want to offer an setting the place followers of all ages can safely come and benefit from the sport of basketball and the place we are able to rejoice the historical past and tradition of communities in good conscience.

“The celebration of a strip membership will not be conduct aligned with that imaginative and prescient.  Please be a part of me in petitioning the Atlanta Hawks to cancel this promotion in order to make sure that the NBA stays a protected, respectful, and welcoming setting for everybody concerned.”

 

Conor Ryan is a employees author protecting the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Crimson Sox for Boston.com, a task he has held since 2023.