2017 NBA All-Star Game awarded to New Orleans

In a final move, and underlining the league’s disapproval of North Carolina’s controversial and discriminatory LGBT law, HB2, the National Basketball Association announced that it is moving the NBA All-Star Game to New Orleans. The Sunday, February 19th game will be played in the city’s Smoothie King Center, home of the league’s New Orleans Pelicans. ESPN reported that Chicago and New York/Brooklyn were also under consideration in July.
“New Orleans is a world-class