{"id":635845,"date":"2026-03-03T04:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635845\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:27:14","slug":"luke-kornet-sends-clear-message-to-adam-silver-after-calling-out-hawks-magic-city-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635845\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Kornet Sends Clear Message to Adam Silver After Calling Out Hawks\u2019 \u2018Magic City Night\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that an active NBA player publicly challenges another franchise for promotional events and decisions, but that\u2019s exactly what happened today. After the Atlanta Hawks recently announced \u2018Magic City Night\u2019 for their match against the Orlando Magic in March, San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet spoke up, and his message was clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week the Atlanta Hawks \u201cannounced a special one-night collaboration to celebrate the city\u2019s iconic cultural institution Magic City\u201d\u2026\u201d Kornet wrote on his Medium blog.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIn its press release the Hawks failed to acknowledge that this place is, as the business itself boasts, \u201cAtlanta\u2019s premier strip club.\u201d Given this fact, I would like to respectfully ask that the Atlanta Hawks cancel this promotional night with Magic City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not often that an active NBA player publicly challenges another franchise for promotional events and decisions, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-635845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116163355921932150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}