By Jeff McDonald, Staff writers | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-03-02 13:54:53
2026 年 3 月 1 日，星期日，在纽约举行的 NBA 常规赛对阵纽约尼克斯队的上半场，圣安东尼奥马刺队的卢克·科内特对一次吹罚做出反应。
费城 —— 马刺队中锋卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 正进一步要求亚特兰大老鹰队取消该俱乐部与亚特兰大一家脱衣舞俱乐部计划举行的促销之夜。
科内特周一在他在 Medium 网站上发布的最新博客文章中提出了这一要求，引发了社交媒体上长达一天的辩论。
周二在费城进行的马刺队赛前投篮训练结束后，科内特重申了他的观点，即老鹰队应该取消这次活动，并表示他已经为博客文章可能带来的任何反弹做好了准备。
“我希望能表达一个我认为联盟中很多人都有的观点，”科内特说道，“我没怎么用社交媒体之类的。我知道也有一些批评的声音。我认为能够开启这种对话，在公共论坛上理清思路，并确保我们有能力进行讨论，是一件好事。”
科内特上周首次了解到老鹰队的意图，最终选择公开他的担忧。
“本周，亚特兰大老鹰队‘宣布将在 3 月 16 日周一主场对阵奥兰多的比赛中，举行一次特别的单晚合作，以庆祝该市标志性的文化机构 Magic City’，”科内特写道，“在新闻发布会上，老鹰队没有承认这个地方正如该企业自诩的那样，是‘亚特兰大首屈一指的脱衣舞俱乐部’。基于这一事实，我想礼貌地请求亚特兰大老鹰队取消与 Magic City 的这个促销之夜。”
科内特是一名虔诚的天主教徒，他解释说，他希望老鹰队取消促销之夜，源于他认为 NBA 应该“渴望保护和尊重女性”，他写道，许多女性“每天都在辛勤工作，使这里成为世界上最好的篮球联盟”。
“我们应该营造一种保护和尊重我们所熟知并深爱的女儿、妻子、姐妹、母亲和伴侣的氛围，”科内特写道，“如果让这个夜晚在没有抗议的情况下继续进行，会对我们 NBA 社区产生负面影响，特别是在对我们社会中潜在的物化和虐待女性行为的纵容上。
“无论女性是以何种方式进入成人娱乐行业的，这个领域的许多人都经历过她们绝不应该遭受的虐待、骚扰和暴力。”
周二在 Xfinity Mobile Arena 结束球队走场训练后，科内特详述了他对该促销活动的不安。
“这并不能代表我以及我所知道的 NBA 中许多人的感受，”科内特说，“我想确保这部分讨论的声音能被表达出来。”
科内特表示，自博客文章发布以来，老鹰队管理层没有任何人联系过他。他说自己在写博客之前向联盟办公室表达了担忧，但发布后尚未收到任何正式反馈。
“我们不予置评，”老鹰队执行副总裁兼首席沟通官加林·纳兰 (Garin Narain) 在《圣安东尼奥新闻快报》向其分享了科内特的博客链接后，在回复该报的电子邮件中表示。
科内特表示，他收到的反馈大多是积极的。
“在过去的一周里，有男性运动员在世界舞台上允许对他人的女性同伴进行诋毁，看到你能为女性挺身而出并与她们站在一起，真是令人感到无比清新，卢克，”斯泰西·格里加斯 (Stacey Grigas) 在科内特博客的评论区写道，“作为一个读到这些内容的女性，这意义重大。谢谢你！”
也有人对 Magic City 的促销活动表示支持。
在科内特发布博客的几天前，《Athletic》的高级 NBA 记者大卫·阿尔德里奇 (David Aldridge) 在《纽约时报》发表了一篇评论，详述了老鹰队推广该俱乐部的决定，标题为《老鹰队向 Magic City 脱衣舞俱乐部致敬并不值得你大动肝火》。
阿尔德里奇解释说，Magic City 已经经营了 40 年，并且是“该市说唱、陷阱音乐 (trap) 和嘻哈音乐发展的中心，在过去的 20 年里产生了一大批销量数百万的艺人：T.I.、Migos、杰梅因·杜普里 (Jermaine Dupri)、2 Chainz、Killer Mike、Big Boi、Future 以及其他许多人”。
“Magic City 成了非正式的 A&R（艺人与制作）枢纽，”电影制片人巴扬·朱纳姆 (Bayan Joonam) 去年告诉佐治亚州公共广播电台（据阿尔德里奇引用）。他是去年在 STARZ 频道播出的关于 Magic City 的五集纪录片的执行制片人之一。
阿尔德里奇还报道称，Magic City 的促销活动在球迷中大受欢迎，并指出球队发言人表示，在该俱乐部宣布促销活动后的最初 24 小时内售出了 2000 张门票，且社交媒体上对该决定的支持率超过 90%。
“我想我从未收到过这么多索要球票的请求，”老鹰队及州立农业球馆执行副总裁兼首席营销官梅丽莎·普罗克特 (Melissa Proctor) 告诉阿尔德里奇，“有人跟我说，‘在旁边帮我留一件连帽衫。’”
“基于这些以及其他原因，老鹰队根本没有退缩的意思，”阿尔德里奇写道，“他们的组织，包括所有权阶层，都与该俱乐部有着长期的联系。”
阿尔德里奇补充道，“演员、制片人兼慈善家杰米·格尔茨 (Jami Gertz) —— 她与丈夫、老鹰队大老板托尼·雷斯勒 (Tony Ressler) 共同拥有球队 —— 担任了 STARZ 纪录片的共同执行制片人。她的儿子尼克 (Nick) 现在是球队老板的主要顾问，他曾是乔治敦大学的同学，与科尔·布朗 (Cole Brown) 同窗。科尔·布朗是一位作家兼制片人，几年前曾帮助杜普里整理回忆录。书中的一个章节就讲述了 Magic City 对亚特兰大音乐界的影响。
“格尔茨和雷斯勒第一次在州立农业球馆观看比赛时，最先见到的人就是该俱乐部传奇创始人兼老板迈克尔·‘Magic 先生’·巴尼 (Michael “Mr. Magic” Barney) 的儿子们 —— 朱朱 (JuJu) 和迈克尔·‘小 Magic’·巴尼 (Michael “Little Magic” Barney)。”
阿尔德里奇引用普罗克特的话报道称，该俱乐部的舞者“将不会参与当晚任何环节。但普罗克特表示，俱乐部的员工将可以使用球馆的包厢观看比赛。”
“这并不是一个轻而易举的决定，”普罗克特说，“我们必须确保这一体验的定位对我们的业务是有意义的。这百分之百是我们做出最终决定的方式……归根结底，我们是在聚焦一个对亚特兰大文化产生巨大影响的地方。比赛期间不会有任何超级出格的事情。我们的比赛呈现水平在联盟中名列前茅。如果你不是亚特兰大本地人，你可能无法理解。”
科内特表示，他理解联盟中有些人可能不同意他对 Magic City 促销活动的看法。但他觉得无论如何都有义务直言不讳。
“这正是试图真正开启对话不可或缺的一部分，”科内特周二说道，“这是很重要的事情，有助于确保联盟能够代表大家所希望的形象，并成为我们想要身处的环境。”
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Why the Spurs’ Luke Kornet wants the Hawks to cancel a promotion
San Antonio Spurs’ Luke Kornet reacts to a call during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks Sunday, March 1, 2026, in New York.
PHILADELPHIA — Spurs center Luke Kornet is doubling down on his call for the Atlanta Hawks to cancel a promotional night the club has scheduled with an Atlanta strip club.
Kornet made the request Monday in his latest post for the blog he publishes on the website Medium, sparking a day of debate on social media.
Speaking after the Spurs’ shootaround Tuesday in Philadelphia, Kornet reiterated his belief the Hawks should nix the event and said he was prepared for any kind of backlash his blog post might bring.
“The hope was to be able to voice a perspective I think a lot of people share across the league,” Kornet said. "I’m not on social media and stuff. I know there was criticism the other way. I think it’s good to be able to open up the conversation and kind of sort that out in a public forum and just make sure we’re capable of having a discussion.”
Kornet first became aware of the Hawks’ intentions last week, ultimately opting to go public with his concerns.
“This week the Atlanta Hawks ‘announced a special one-night collaboration to celebrate the city’s iconic cultural institution Magic City’ during the team’s home game against Orlando on Monday, March 16,” Kornet wrote. “In its press release the Hawks failed to acknowledge that this place is, as the business itself boasts, ‘Atlanta’s premier strip club.’ Given this fact, I would like to respectfully ask that the Atlanta Hawks cancel this promotional night with Magic City.”
Kornet, a devout Catholic, explained his desire to see the Hawks’ scratch the promotional night centers on his belief that the NBA should “desire to protect and esteem women,” many of whom he wrote “work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world.”
“We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love,” Kornet wrote. "Allowing this night to go forward without protest would reflect poorly on us as an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society.
“Regardless of how a woman finds her way into the adult entertainment industry, many in this space experience abuse, harassment, and violence to which they should never be subjected.”
Kornet expounded on his uneasiness with the promotion after Tuesday’s team walkthrough at Xfinity Mobile Arena..
“It didn’t really represent what I know myself and a lot of others in the NBA felt,” Kornet said. “I want to make sure that part of the discussion was expressed.”
Kornet said he has not been contacted by anyone in the Hawks’ organization since his post hit the Internet. He said he voiced his concerns with the league office before writing his blog, but has not received any official feedback since posting.
“We have no comment,” Garin Narain, the Hawks executive vice president/chief communications officer, said in an email to the San Antonio Express-News after the newspaper shared a link to Kornet’s blog with him.
Kornet said he had mostly received a positive response from the post.
“Coming off a week where male athletes allowed disparagement towards their female peers on a world stage, it is incredibly refreshing to see you stand up for and stand with women, Luke,” Stacey Grigas wrote in the comments section of Kornet’s blog. “It means so much as a woman reading this. Thank you!”
Others are defending the Magic City promotion.
Kornet’s post came just days after The Athletic’s David Aldridge, a longtime NBA reporter, wrote a commentary for The New York Times detailing the Hawks’ decision to promote the club under the headline “The Hawks honoring the Magic City strip club isn’t really worth your outrage.”
Aldridge explained that Magic City has been in business for 40 years and has been “central to the development of the rap, trap and hip-hop scene in the city, which has produced a slew of multi-million-selling artists in the last 20 years: T.I., Migos, Jermaine Dupri, 2 Chainz, Killer Mike, Big Boi, Future and numerous others.”
“Magic City became an unofficial A&R hub,” filmmaker Bayan Joonam, one of the executive producers of a five-part docuseries on Magic City that ran last year on STARZ, told Georgia Public Radio last year, per Aldridge.
Aldridge also reported the Magic City promotion has been a hit with fans, pointing out that a team spokesman said 2,000 tickets were sold in the first 24 hours after the club announced the promotion and that it has received more than 90% approval for the decision on social media.
“I don’t think that I’ve gotten as many requests for tickets to a game,” Melissa Proctor, the Hawks’ and State Farm Arena’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, told Aldridge. “I have people saying, ‘Hold a hoodie for me on the side.’ "
“For this and other reasons, the Hawks aren’t backing up at all,” Aldridge wrote. “Their organization, up to and including ownership, has longstanding ties to the club.”
Aldridge added, "The actress, producer and philanthropist Jami Gertz — a co-owner of the team along with her husband, Hawks governor Tony Ressler — co-executive produced the STARZ docuseries. Her son Nick, now the team’s principal adviser to his father, was a Georgetown University classmate of Cole Brown, the author and producer who was helping Dupri get his memoir together a few years ago. One of the chapters in the book was about the impact of Magic City on the Atlanta music scene.
“And the first people Gertz met when she and Ressler attended their first game in State Farm Arena were the sons of the club’s legendary founder and owner — Michael “Mr. Magic” Barney — JuJu and Michael “Little Magic” Barney.”
Aldridge reported, per Proctor, that the club’s dancers "will not take part in any aspect of the evening. But Proctor said employees of the club will have access to a suite at the arena to watch the game.
“This wasn’t a cakewalk, easy decision,” Proctor said. “We had to make sure we positioned the experience in a way that made sense for our business. That was 100 percent of how we landed where we did. … We’re spotlighting a place that’s had a huge impact on Atlanta culture, at the end of the day. There’s nothing that’s going to be super provocative at the game. We are at the top of the league in our game presentation. If you’re not from Atlanta, you may not understand.”
Kornet said he understood some across the league might not share his view of the Magic City promotion. He felt obligated to speak out anyway.
“That’s part and parcel of actually trying to get the conversation started,” Kornet said Tuesday. "It’s something that is important to help ensure the league is something that everyone is wanting to represent and an environment we want to have.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff writers, via San Antonio Express-News