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Governor Says There Was Agreement In Place With NBA To Keep All-Star Game In Charlotte

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said that he and state legislative leaders had a "total verbal agreement" with the NBA about changes to HB2 "that presumably would have kept" the '17 NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte, according to a front-page piece by Peralta & Rothacker of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. McCrory on Thursday said that the agreement included three main items: "reinstating the ability to sue for discrimination in state court, developing a 'blue-ribbon task force' to study discrimination in the state, and aligning state and federal nondiscrimination statutory language." A source said that it would be an "overstatement to say there was an actual agreement." The source added that the NBA had been "discussing two additional pillars of a potential compromise: changing how transgender people can use out-of-state birth certificates, and increasing penalties for crimes committed in bathrooms." McCrory said that the agreement with the NBA was "later sabotaged" by unnamed Republican legislators who he said "leaked the agreement out" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7,29). 

GOING BACK AND FORTH: In Charlotte, Steve Harrison notes U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver "debated by letter last week," with Pittenger "charging the league had engaged in 'unmistakable hypocrisy.'" Pittenger asked why the NBA was "preparing to sell tickets to preseason games it will soon play in China." He then asked Silver to justify what Pittenger said was a "gross lack of judgment and moral clarity." Silver wrote back, stating, "The NBA recognizes that it cannot choose the law in every country, state, and city in which it does business. We can, however, make business judgments as to where we will be able to conduct our events successfully." Pittenger replied by saying that "'liberal activists' are more concerned with allowing men into women's locker room than 'standing up for female dissidents in China who face unspeakable sexual abuse and torture'" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/29).

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