Next up, cocaine! 

Harden MVP season incoming

They really called a stripclub an “iconic cultural institution” LMAo

we are so backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

It’s Jail blazers time

You just need cocaine now to back in the 80s

Ran into Rasheed Wallace at a strip club the night before a game once. Friend of mine saw him somewhere else across town later and he was buying rounds of shots…

He was DNP the next night.

🤣

Gotta go all the way.

Crack cocaaaaainnne

yall thought strip clubs ended in the 90’s?

Harden hasn’t even seen the Kornet Komment because he doesn’t have internet.

Harden’s going to make a half time appearance. He is going to fireman slide down a huge pole from the ceiling of Hawks arena.

Harden has his jersey retired there. A franchise legend stepping up for them

Luke Kornet is a total nerd

It is, but money matters more to ownership, even if it’s shortsighted

Entire arenas are named after casinos which kids aren’t allowed to partake in either. I’m sure there won’t be strippers that children will be forced to watch just like there wasn’t slot machines at talking stick casino arena for them to play. It’s a stupid promotion but I’m guessing there will be nothing explicit about it irl

“No” - James Harden

Im so tired of this discourse. This isnt fuckin golf or tennis. Sure its an all ages event but you know what parents can do if they believe it’ll negatively affect their children? Not fucking show up. It’s so goddamn easy and FREE to do.

Magic City is a major cultural icon of Atlanta. They literally had a magic city event in TOKYO that went viral because of how well known it is. God forbid the Hawks have a cheeky, adult themed night against another lottery team where they have T.I. (an ATL legend) perform while people eat some delicious ass wings.

Sorry that our regularly televised product of grown men throwing a ball through a hoop, usually sponsored by alcohol, gambling, prediction markets, AI, fast food, and soda, is interrupted with a rap performance and chicken wings, sponsored by world famous adult institution.

Jfc, the pearl clutching over this is ridiculous. As if 5% of this fuckin sub was going to tune into a Hawks vs Magic regular season game to begin with.

🙄🙄🙄🙄

Bro we grew up playing grand theft auto lol

I’d say the incessant gambling ads are much worse for the youth than strippers.

When you realize most of this sub can’t buy cigarettes it makes a lot of sense

Lemon pepper wet????

If you’re ever in Atlanta you gotta hit The Local. All kinds of wet/dry rub combos

Some of the best wing sauce I’ve ever had.

MLK loved titties so much the FBI used it against him

Two dissimilar but undeniable parts of Atlanta culture. I enjoy Atlanta’s “gentlemens clubs” but think this is a mistake. Just a bad look for what should be a family friendly event. 

Bunch of childless weirdos in here acting like it’s equally hard to explain strippers and alcohol/gambling to a young child. It’s really not. Alcohol and gambling are things kids encounter all the time in normal society and have intuitive explanations that make sense to kids - explaining that women get naked for horny men is not something you can or should want to explain to a 8 year old.

I think sex is particularly sensitive in the way that many talk about it anyways. Maybe it shouldn’t be that way in every instance, but it is what it is.

Try this:

NBA Halftime: Brought to you by PornHub.

Sounds a bit different than Budwieser or fanduel to me.

What’s weird is that it seems like the general consensus at least on this sub is that gambling is bad and ruining the NBA. Like this sub was absolutely eviscerating Giannis for his Kalshi partnership.

So I’m not even sure how you can use it as a form of whataboutism.

My thought was that if you do this make it an 18+ event

I do like the logic that anyone who doesn’t oppose a strip club promo night this week is never allowed to complain about sports gambling ever again.

But do we have to? The criticism is more that this is a nuanced subject that doesn’t have to be brought up at a family sporting event

Last year a former employee sued them for harassment and wage theft. And there have been others before that. If this is the “most professionally run strip club”, then it doesn’t seem great for the industry as a whole.

And Kornet’s post isn’t wrong about the quandaries of doing this promotion. Clubs play a huge role in human trafficking and abuse. This investigative piece that came out shortly after the docuseries about Magic City is a good summary

It’s not pearl clutching or meaningless complaints. I think there are a lot of good reasons why this sort of promotion is uncomfortable

Redditors are now experts on how strip clubs ackshually empower and protect women

Hilarious

Most professionally run according to who?

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/settlements/19296/settlement-reached-in-magic-city-dancers-flsa-class.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox5atlanta.com/news/former-magic-city-dancer-sues-over-sexual-harassment-wage-violations.amp

Right so let’s promote it on a platform that is meant for people of all ages right? Every young kid yearns for the strip club and gambling sites.

They don’t actually give af, this is very clearly tinged in a weird misogynistic double standard, with the virtue signaling about respecting women just being lip service.

T.I. 

Lou Will

Like dance teams aren’t already throwing ass lol

One comment I heard on it that kinda changed my mind. 

It would be like having pornhub night. And then being well it’s not like there are going to be pornstars there as the defense. 

It’s still bad if that’s what your celebrating and representing as “family night” 

They won’t be? Why tf did I buy tickets

Handing out sweaters at a sporting event is TOO FAR. It’s dangerous and might corrupt the minds of children!

Promotional HJs for lucky fans! Half court shot prize is private lapdances. Whats not to love?

So many people’s opinions of Atlanta just being reaffirmed lol

If you’re gonna do it stand by it proud and strong I guess.

Sex trafficking and sexual assault go hand in hand with strip clubs. There is no magic strip club where it’s a bunch of women who are emotionally and mentally healthy, had plenty of job options and just chose to get naked and dance and be propositioned by grubby men they otherwise wouldn’t give the time of day to. It’s an industry built on exploitation and objectification of women and the .01 percent who go no really I feel empowered! Are the exceptions. Nasty ass men running the world and trying to normalize this at a basketball game smh 

Who says they don’t have a problem with abusers in the league? It’s much easier to get a team to change a game night theme than it is to kick someone like Miles Bridges out of the league.

Yeah how dare players voice their displeasure before solving world peace

Two things can be bad

Whataboutism, again. Classic redditor

why do you say “they don’t care…”??

I care about domestic abuse, I care about police brutality, I care about government corruption. I care about the exploitation of desperate people.

None of that is invalidated just because yesterday I complained about the cost of a McDouble.

Streisand effect undefeated

I agree. This is also a consequence in the drop of our morals nationally. Look at our POTUS

magic city is a part of atlanta the same way casinos are a part of vegas.

It was going to be a low key event that most people wouldn’t even know was happening— including those at the game, but now people actually know about it.  Nationally, too— Kornet just advertised to all the kids that follow NBA news outside of Atlanta lol… increased the exposure to 29 other fan bases.  He put a 30x multiplier on what he’s speaking out against

What a snowflake lmao

Sad that people have become so cynical that any sincere expression of opinion is written off as virtue signaling