Despite Commissioner Adam Silver’s insistence that “we’re not trying to keep everybody in suspense,” NBA owners took no vote on whether to move the 2017 All-Star from Charlotte over North Carolina’s law HB2:
“The primary test for us is under this law whether we can successfully host our All-Star week,” he said. “It is more than a game, it is a week full of activities in North Carolina. The question for us becomes in this situation, given the controversy, given the amount of discussion, given how hardened the views are: Is this the place we should be in 2017, at the epicenter of global basketball, where we can go celebrate our game and our values?”
Silver did not say when a decision would be made on possibly moving the game, but that the clock is ticking.
“We’re not trying to keep everybody in suspense,” he said. “We realize this decision has to be made very quickly.”
I’ll stick to my prediction that moving the All-Star game will not happen. Despite the Silver’s constant citations of the league’s “core values,” let’s remember that the NBA is still made up of individual teams and I’ll submit that a majority of owners have no opinion on HB2.
