The NBA has a chance to take a powerful stand for LGBT rights. Will it?
 

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*—*but for **w, just k**w that a prominent **rth Carolina advocacy group calls it the "worst anti-LGBT bill in the entire nation."

The ball, as they say, is **w in NBA 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...


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