Especially when it’s named after the opposing team

It’s absolutely fucking wild.

Like, I cannot fathom what the talks were behind closed doors that led them to think it was a good idea

Yeah I dont want to me the think of the kids guy

But I have young daughters and this is kind of crazy lol

So are they gonna have strippers performing at halftime?

Yeah I’m not remotely offended by it, but I am flabbergasted that the NBA would allow it.

I read the entire first half of the post as the Orlando magic going to do a promotion with Disneyland and I didn’t get the issue until I got to the ‘the premier strip club in thr city’ and I was wait what?!

It feels like the idea of someone meme-brained that wants to embrace the jokes. It also has this undercurrent of, “we all know these athletes love strippers!!” that can’t be great

me neither. but shit is weird as hell and even weirder when they did that onlyfans porno promo.

i grew up as a kid on the internet myself. i don’t know what the hell would have happened to my brain if i saw the atlanta hawks post a soft core porn-esque video. to think thousands of young fans probably saw that shit is pretty sickening and not enough people talk about it. even if they don’t understand what they’re seeing, it was a direct collab with the onlyfans company. they’re literally advertising a porn site for people who don’t know what it is to check out.

And the sex offenders, wife beaters, billionaire pedophiles…

We had fans snorting coke off a pizza box the last time we played Cleveland.

Really though he can excuse the gambling

Titled “The Hardest Road”

“Luke Kornet is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of. Let me say that again: Luke Kornet is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of.”

he don’t have internet

And how is it that James Harden isn’t playing in this game?

Hawks owner’s wife is making a tv show about the strip club so this is surely a publicity push for it.

Magic City is a pretty big deal in Atlanta, do you think there will be strippers on the court at halftime?

NBA: the players are considered role models and will be held to an ethics code

Also NBA: Women on the other hand are for cheerleading and stripping, also make sure to take our side in the upcoming lockout against the WNBA

It’s not just a strip club. I mean it is, but Magic City is the center of the Atlanta music scene. TI is performing at halftime. The list of rappers who started their careers at Magic City is as long as your arm. That’s what they’re celebrating.

Rapper Shawty Lo who was unfairly taken from us too soon had his funeral procession stop by his favorite strip club before being buried. Regardless of how controversial they are, strip clubs are a huge part of the Atlanta night scene and Magic City is the most famous.

Lol I thought they were just cucking themselves to a division rival. Didn’t know it was a strip club. That is wild for an NBA team. Unhinged, even.

Imagine Luke blocking you from seeing some titties with two hands up high 🙌 

Fuck, that’s a great comment.

Yeah I would have thought a fucking ufc event at the white house is too, but here we are.

I mean they play horror movie ads and gambling ads during 6PM basketball games.

Nothing like seeing some possessed mom crawling like a spider jumping at the screen that will give my kid nightmares for a week just so we can promote Smile 18.

Welcome to 2026

It’s actually a 7pm basketball game so bring on the titties and lemon pepper flats

I mean we support gambling non fucking stop now so what’s the difference

And King Lemon Peppa Steppa himself, Trick Williams

Yeah, let’s preserve the NBA’s image as a bastion of virtue. I don’t disagree with him about the female imagery stuff tho

I can condone pushing gambling onto kids. I can handle our partnerships with businesses that use sweat shops. 

But a strip club is too damn far!

You don’t have to be a catholic for the intersection between promoting a strip club and trying to appeal to young children bother you. I’m hard-liner atheist and I see his point. (And yes, laundered slavery in the form of sweatshops or peddling gambling is also reprehensible)

Username checks out

It’s real. The automod takes the post down if you post the link but just type up Luke Kornet blog and you’ll find it

Look up who the owner of the Hawks is and the primary proponent for this. It’s god damn hilarious.

It’s not complicated. You can support the workers and say their work doesn’t belong in an all-ages event. That’s it.

Not that I know of. Magic City does have a system in place to educate employees on identifying trafficking, but nothing in their hiring practice actually screen for victims of coercion AFAIK.

I feel like it’s possible to support SWs and also feel like an NBA team doesn’t need to promote it 

There’s conservative undertones in this message that people are missing

Yeah it’s tough. I think it all comes down to how well Magic City supports their employees, and whether the women are involved in the promotion/if it’s by their choice or if they’re forced to be. I don’t know the actual answer to that, but in general the feminist version of adult entertainment comes down to the women being treated well and having plenty of choice in what they do

It is on NBA.com!

The sad reality is that drugs, sex, and gambling take over every space in which they are permitted. If you want to create a space that isn’t dominated by these things, then you need to gatekeep. 

Would sell out every week. People treating Magic City like its just some titty bar and not an atlanta institution

free lap dances for everyone if someone misses two straight FTs

James Harden is offended

The owners wife

Yours is a fair petiton as well, isn’t it? And IMO it would be worthy of discussion without going all whataboutist about it.

Kornet’s blog piece is pretty fair IMO, and so are the arguments he makes. Nobody needs to embrace all causes at once

I’m not religious and I think his statement is quite thoughtful and doesn’t scream pearl clutching at all tbh

But I appreciate how that didn’t come up in this statement

Because he doesn’t think magic city should be a sponsored event? Lmao

That industry is rife with trafficking

Truuuue, and the Lakers should celebrate the entertainment legacy of the Valley with a Porn Night. Fun for the whole family!

It seems really bizarre to be promoting a strip club at a basketball game where entire families attend.

Something can be a legitimate job without it needing to have a promotional night at a family friendly event.

Outside of reddit? No.

So this exists to promote the owner’s wife’s movie? That’s hilarious.

Pushing life ruining gambling addiction into even children’s faces to boot

Magic City has been a huge thing long before this generation. 

It’s the truth

Obviously you haven’t listened to rap post 1996

This generation? Lol most of the people who follow it as one are much much older, it’s been around a long time.

Also like many have said in the thread, gambling apps and alcohol have done more damage to society than Magic City will as well, and they are ingrained in the NBA experience.

Lol I’m not white and I don’t find anything wrong with him complaining. Are you saying strip clubs are exclusively a black thing? And only black people like me can point out the flaws in this stupid promotion?

Because the nba is a collection of 400 men? And he’s talking from their perspective?

None of those terms are defined by relationships to men tho? Women have daughters, women have wives, women have sisters, women have mothers, and women have partners lol

Traditionally you’re right, but those terms are just descriptive, they’re not hinging on a relationship to a man