{"id":636367,"date":"2026-03-03T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/636367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:16:22","slug":"luke-kornet-says-atlanta-hawks-theme-night-with-strip-club-magic-city-objectifies-women-atlanta-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/636367\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Kornet says Atlanta Hawks\u2019 theme night with strip club Magic City objectifies women | Atlanta Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet has called on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/atlanta-hawks\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> to abandon their collaboration with a famous strip club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Magic City is an Atlanta institution and been mentioned in a string of hip-hop records, as well as hosting rappers such as Drake, Lil Yachty, Migos, Jack Harlow and Future. It is also popular with athletes: past visitors have included Michael Jordan, while MLS\u2019s Atlanta United celebrated their title at the club in 2018. The club gained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/jul\/25\/lou-williams-gentlemans-club-magic-city\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread attention in 2020<\/a> when the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 Lou Williams visited the club after leaving the NBA\u2019s quarantine bubble during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Hawks recently announced a theme night with Magic City for their game against Orlando Magic on 16 March. The night will feature a performance from Atlanta native TI, while fans will be able to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanta.capitalbnews.org\/magic-city-chicken-wings\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic City\u2019s famous wings<\/a> and branded hoodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">However Kornet, a devout Catholic, said he disapproves of the night, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukekornet.medium.com\/concerning-the-atlanta-hawks-0f07c62ea65e\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writing in a Medium post<\/a> that it \u201cwould reflect poorly on us as an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a press release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/hawks\/news\/hawksto-celebrate-atlantas-iconic-cultural-institution-magic-city-during-the-teams-magic-city-monday-game-against-the-orlando-magic-on-monday-march-16\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Hawks said<\/a> Magic City is an \u201ciconic cultural institution,\u201d and praised \u201cits pivotal role in hip-hop and Black culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">However, Kornet noted that the press release made no mention of the fact that Magic City \u201cis, as the business itself boasts, \u2018Atlanta\u2019s premier strip club.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kornet added that he believed the night was inappropriate for many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nba\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe desire to provide an environment where fans of all ages can safely come and enjoy the game of basketball and where we can celebrate the history and culture of communities in good conscience,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe celebration of a strip club is not conduct aligned with that vision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet has called on the Atlanta Hawks to abandon their collaboration with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-636367","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\/116164728364711596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636367","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=636367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}