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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Good idea.
Time for Texas to warn the NBA faggots back they way it did the NFL faggots.
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Yep! Heard a Texas State official on the radio this afternoon. He said the NFL should stick to governing football and not trying to govern States. ....Same should be said to the NBA!
Won’t be long before most sports fans will have to hide the fact that the’re sports fans....
Yeah, because all these enlightened professional sports people dive a damn about these freaks?
This is just so much horse poo.
Both leagues can kiss my ass.
If one is not sure what sex he is go to a local sane doctor have them identify which equipment one has between their legs
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