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NBA Moves All-Star Game from North Carolina over “Bathroom Bill”

HeadlineJul 22, 2016

The National Basketball Association has announced it will not play its annual All-Star Game in North Carolina next year. The city of Charlotte was slated to host the event in February. But NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said yesterday the game would be played elsewhere after North Carolina lawmakers failed to change the state law known as HB 2. HB 2 nullifies ordinances protecting LGBT people from discrimination and forces transgender people to use the bathroom that matches what they were assigned on their birth certificate.

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