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03-24-2016, 10:27 PM
The NBA has a chance to take a powerful stand for LGBT rights. Will it?
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**rth Carolina legislators passed a bill Wednesday that bars cities and counties*in the state from passing their own rules to protect LGBT people from discrimination. You can read the ugly details here (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/**rth-carolina-anti-trans-bathroom-bill/)*—*but for **w, just k**w that a prominent **rth Carolina advocacy group calls it (http://equalitync.org/latest/news/gover**r_signing/) the "worst anti-LGBT bill in the entire nation."
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Two years after admonishing the sports world for being behind the curve on LGBT rights, Silver has a chance to put his money where his mouth is. More accurately, he has a chance to take his billion-dollar league's money out of **rth Carolina for one of its premiere events next year.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/24/nba-all-star-**rth-carolina-lgbt/)
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**rth Carolina legislators passed a bill Wednesday that bars cities and counties*in the state from passing their own rules to protect LGBT people from discrimination. You can read the ugly details here (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/**rth-carolina-anti-trans-bathroom-bill/)*—*but for **w, just k**w that a prominent **rth Carolina advocacy group calls it (http://equalitync.org/latest/news/gover**r_signing/) the "worst anti-LGBT bill in the entire nation."
The ball, as they say, is **w in NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Commissioner Adam Silver's court.
Two years after admonishing the sports world for being behind the curve on LGBT rights, Silver has a chance to put his money where his mouth is. More accurately, he has a chance to take his billion-dollar league's money out of **rth Carolina for one of its premiere events next year.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/24/nba-all-star-**rth-carolina-lgbt/)
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