By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-03-02 23:29:45
纽约——在周日圣安东尼奥马刺队惨败给纽约尼克斯队 (New York Knicks) 后，更衣室里的人几乎已经散尽，许多球员都已离开，去享受在这座城市的最后一个夜晚。
中锋卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 独自坐在角落里，正对着笔记本电脑噼里啪啦地敲击着，就像一位正试图按时交稿的资深报社记者。这一幕非常奇特，因为球员在赛后很少会打开笔记本电脑，甚至根本不会把电脑带进更衣室。但正如《The Athletic》本周所报道的，科内特最近重启了他的个人博客，其内容也从描写他在客场之旅中喜爱的教堂，扩展到了对 NBA 生活的点滴感悟。
“赶上截止日期了吗？”在他合上电脑后，我开玩笑地问道。
“这会引起一些关注的，”科内特回答道。他解释说，他想尽快发布这篇文章，以确保它能跟上当下的“时代精神 (zeitgeist)”。随后，他还特意核实了一下自己对“zeitgeist”这个词的用法是否准确。确实很准确。
次日早晨，科内特发布了他写作生涯中最受瞩目的一篇作品。
上周，老鹰队宣布与亚特兰大著名的脱衣舞俱乐部 Magic City 建立合作伙伴关系，后者将赞助该队 3 月 16 日对阵奥兰多魔术队 (Orlando Magic) 的“Magic City 之夜”活动。在一篇题为“关于亚特兰大老鹰队”的新文章中，这位 30 岁的马刺中锋发表了一封公开信，请求老鹰队重新考虑这一决定。
“NBA 应当渴望保护并尊重女性，她们中的许多人每天都在勤奋工作，致力于让这里成为世界上最好的篮球联盟，”科内特写道。“我们应当营造一种氛围，去保护并尊重我们所熟知并深爱的女儿、妻子、姐妹、母亲和伴侣。如果不加抗议地让这个活动之夜继续进行，将使我们作为 NBA 共同体的形象受损，特别是在由于我们的默许，可能导致女性在社会中被物化和遭受不公正对待。无论一名女性是如何进入成人娱乐行业的，该领域的许多人都会遭受虐待、骚扰和暴力，而这些是她们绝不应该承受的。”
在周二对阵费城 76 人队 (Philadelphia 76ers) 的比赛前，科内特详细说明了他决定分享个人观点的初衷。
据《圣安东尼奥新闻快报》报道，科内特表示：“我希望能够表达一种我认为联盟中很多人都感同身受的观点。我不玩社交媒体之类的。我知道也有反向的批评声。我认为能够开启这种对话，并在公共论坛上理清思路，确保我们有能力进行讨论，这是一件好事。”
科内特在波士顿凯尔特人队 (Boston Celtics) 时的前队友、金州勇士队 (Golden State Warriors) 中锋艾尔·霍福德 (Al Horford)，周二在 X 上表达了对科内特的支持。
Magic City 被老鹰队称为“这座城市标志性的文化机构”，它与当地文化的融合非常深厚，足以在州立农业球馆 (State Farm Arena) 拥有自己的主题之夜。Magic City 距离球馆仅几分钟车程，其备受推崇的鸡翅或许与那里的舞者一样出名。它是亚特兰大名流和普通市民都喜爱的夜生活场所。虽然在老鹰队的“Magic City 之夜”比赛中不会有舞者现身，但该活动旨在向这家俱乐部致敬。
它也是 NBA 球员到访该市时的热门去处。前洛杉矶快船队 (LA Clippers) 后卫路·威廉姆斯 (Lou Williams) 青少年时期曾居住在这一地区。2020 年，他在离开 NBA 的 COVID-19 防疫隔离园区（bubble）去参加祖父葬礼后，被发现出现在 Magic City，违反了防疫规定。随后，该俱乐部以他的名字命名了其标志性的柠檬胡椒鸡翅。
正如《The Athletic》的大卫·阿尔德里奇 (David Aldridge) 所详细描述的，Magic City 也是亚特兰大音乐界的文化中心之一。随着过去几十年亚特兰大音乐在主流嘻哈乐界占据主导地位，这也帮助该俱乐部获得了全球知名度。
科内特是一名虔诚的天主教徒，曾是天主教兄弟组织哥伦布骑士会 (Knights of Columbus) 的成员。尽管他在给老鹰队的公开信中并未提及自己的信仰，但信仰一直是他博客此前文章的核心。其中一篇故事讲述了信仰如何帮助他应对投篮能力的下滑，而该博客最初也是基于他对教堂建筑和社区的热爱而创建的。
在信中，科内特强调他认为 NBA 应该保持“家庭友好”的属性。
“我以及联盟中其他人都对老鹰队的决定感到惊讶并表示反对，”科内特写道。“我们渴望提供一个让各个年龄段的球迷都能安全地享受篮球比赛的环境，一个我们可以问心无愧地庆祝社区历史和文化的环境。庆祝一家脱衣舞俱乐部并非符合这一愿景的行为。”
这位马刺中锋发起抗议之际，NBA 正面临多方面的道德挑战。联盟对蓬勃发展的博彩市场的极力支持已导致了多起丑闻，从现役球员被捕到来自球迷的敌对氛围。 “摆烂”现象已达到临界点，以至于总裁亚当·萧华 (Adam Silver) 威胁要进行激进改革。而关于科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard) 与快船队的规避工资帽调查目前也尚未公开解决。
“这并不是什么丢人的事，”球队联合老板杰米·格尔茨 (Jami Gertz)——她与丈夫、老鹰队老板托尼·雷斯勒 (Tony Ressler) 共同经营球队——在最近接受《The Athletic》采访时表示。“这是一家由家庭经营的企业，如果可以这么说的话，这是一种家庭经营的氛围。”
科内特持不同看法，他的目标很明确：在两周后的周一促销活动正式开始前，争取联盟内部支持者的响应并公开发声。他的博客曾停更数年，因为他在寻找除了评价教堂建筑之外更深层的写作意义。目前看来，科内特已经找到了这个意义。
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‘Magic City’ idea ‘would reflect poorly’ on Hawks, NBA, Spurs’ Luke Kornet says
NEW YORK — The San Antonio Spurs’ locker room had all but cleared out after the team’s blowout loss to the New York Knicks Sunday, as many players had left to enjoy one last evening in the city.
Sitting by himself in the corner, center Luke Kornet was hammering away on his laptop like a veteran newspaper reporter trying to get a story in on time. It was a curious scene, as players rarely have laptops open after a game, or have their own laptops in the locker room at all. But Kornet, as The Athletic covered this week, has his own recently revived blog, which he has expanded from writing about his favorite churches on the road to the random musings of life in the NBA.
“Did you make deadline?” I jokingly asked him after he closed his laptop.
“This will get some attention,” Kornet responded, explaining he wanted to file his story quickly to ensure it still hit the zeitgeist. He then double-checked that he had used the word zeitgeist correctly. He did.
The next morning, Kornet dropped the most notable piece of his writing career.
Last week, the Hawks announced a partnership with the famous Atlanta strip club, which is sponsoring “Magic City Night” for the team’s March 16 game against the Orlando Magic. In a new entry entitled “Concerning the Atlanta Hawks,” the 30-year-old Spurs center posted an open letter asking the Hawks to rethink it.
“The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world,” Kornet wrote. “We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love. 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.”
Before Tuesday’s game against the Phialldephia 76ers, Kornet elaborated on his decision to share his perspective.
“The hope was to be able to voice a perspective I think a lot of people share across the league,” Kornet said, according to the San Antonio-Express News. “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’s former Celtics teammate, Golden State Warriors center, Al Horford, supported Kornet on X Tuesday.
Magic City, which the Hawks called “the city’s iconic cultural institution,” is ingrained deeply enough in the local culture to have its own night at the State Farm Arena. Located a short drive from the arena, Magic City is perhaps as famous for its revered chicken wings as its dancers. It’s a popular nightlife spot for Atlanta celebrities and civilians alike. Though there will not be dancers at the Hawks’ Magic City game, it will be celebrating the club.
It’s also a popular institution for NBA players coming to town. Former Clippers guard Lou Williams, who lived in the area as a teenager, was caught breaking quarantine protocol at Magic City after leaving the NBA’s COVID-19 bubble in 2020 for his grandfather’s funeral. The club subsequently named their iconic lemon pepper chicken wings after him.
As The Athletic’s David Aldridge detailed, Magic City is also one of the cultural epicenters for the Atlanta music scene, which helped the club gain global prominence as that scene took hold of mainstream hip hop over the past few decades.
Kornet is a devout Catholic and has served as a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization. Though he did not mention his faith in his open letter to the Hawks, it has been at the core of his prior stories on his blog. He wrote one story on how his faith helped him cope with losing his shooting ability, and the blog was founded on his passion for church architecture and community.
In his letter, Kornet emphasized his belief that the NBA should remain family-friendly.
“I and others throughout the league were surprised by and object to the Hawks’ decision,” Kornet wrote. “We desire to provide an environment where fans of all ages can safely come and enjoy the game of basketball and where we can celebrate the history and culture of communities in good conscience. The celebration of a strip club is not conduct aligned with that vision.”
The Spurs center’s protest comes at a time when the NBA is grappling with morality concerns on multiple fronts. The league’s ardent support of the exploding gambling market has led to multiple scandals, from arrests of active players to a hostile climate from fans. Tanking has reached an inflection point that has commissioner Adam Silver threatening drastic reforms. The Kawhi Leonard-Clippers cap circumvention investigation remains unresolved publicly.
“This is not a shameful thing,” said Jami Gertz, a co-owner of the team along with her husband, Hawks governor Tony Ressler, in a recent interview with The Athletic. “This is a family-run business and a family-run atmosphere, if I can say that.”
Kornet sees it differently, and he was clear about trying to rally supporters in the league to speak up before the promotion occurs two weeks from Monday. His blog went dormant for years as he searched for a deeper purpose to his writing beyond reviewing church architecture. It appears Kornet has found one.
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic