Posted on 02/17/2017 2:08:59 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
AUSTIN - Put the NBA on the growing list of sports organizations warning Texas over its proposed transgender bathroom bill.
In a statement to the Houston Chronicle last week, Spokesman Mike Bass said the NBA weighs a number of factors before choosing where to hold major events, including how fans and athletes will be treated.
"We consider a wide range of factors when making decisions about host locations for league-wide events like the All-Star Game — foremost among them is ensuring the environment where those who participate and attend are treated fairly and equally," Bass said.
The NBA has come out against anti-LGBT bills in the past, moving Sunday's NBA All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans after lawmakers in North Carolina passed their own version of the transgender bathroom bill into law. Texas isn't scheduled to host any major NBA events in the near future, but Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban supported the decision to move the All-Star game and even offered up the Big D as an alternative. . .
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Time for Texas to warn the NBA faggots back they way it did the NFL faggots.
Goodbye NBA!
Time for the US Congress pull their special exemptions....
I’d like to see the NBA and NFL simply disband and go away. Thugs can go back to working at McDonalds, if they can manage to backfill an illegal leaving the country.
Who’s next? The Boy Scouts?
If you don’t cleanup your posts, you’re not going to be getting much posted.
Fewer NFL/NBA, fewer felons and shootings at bars.
Worst case, we lose that liberal (and lucky) cuban’s team (also lucky once).
I could even live without college sports if it comes down to it.
These overpaid, privileged, ass-clowns in NFL and NBA management are setting themselves up for a BIG take-down.
Grap their PC arrogance hard, Texas, and do not let go. Make it a big issue.
If TX and NC both stood firm, that would take out four basketball teams and two football teams. Keep goin’ libs. Pretty soon, the only place you’ll be willing to visit is NY and LA.
Texas should not bow to this type of bullying. Protect our women, don;t let met walk into their stalls.
I believe the Texas bill only applies to schools and maybe other public service places, not places where people are free to choose whether to go to or not. Same as North Carolina. These fools cannot understand the difference, so let them lose money.
Mavericks owner will flip-out.
Death to the gay nba!
Why do the NBA and NFL bosses want men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms? Don’t they have wives and sisters? Are they okay with this?
I am still unconvinced this country can be salvaged. Or should be.
Please do not add MLB to the list. Baseball is just getting going.
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