Sportscaster rips NBA player over blog post opposing team's strip club promotion

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Sports pundit Michelle Beadle ripped into San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet over his blog post calling for the Atlanta Hawks to end their “Magic City Night” promotion, touting the famed strip club Magic City.

Kornet urged the Hawks to cancel the promotion and suggested NBA players and officials “promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love.”

Beadle said on her podcast, “Beadle & Decker,” that Kornet should “take a seat.”

“Luke Kornet, I need you to take a seat,” she said. “I love you, the man, because you’re a Spur and that’s how this game works. And all respect to his … he wrote a long, long blog about why the Atlanta Hawks should respectfully rescind ‘Magic Monday.’ … As a woman, I am not offended by the idea of ‘Magic Monday.’ Again, I cannot say this enough, Magic City, for anyone who’s been to Atlanta, it’s not just a t—y bar. I feel like that’s sort of the vibes that maybe people are getting.

“Secondly, and more importantly is, thank you, white knight. We don’t need this. I’ve had enough of men telling us what we can and shouldn’t and what we should want and what we should need and how we should act. No, no, no, these are not trafficked 12-year-olds, okay? We have that, and none of those people are being brought forward. This is not that. These are grown a– women who have a job. I don’t understand, are you shaming that industry as part of this blog? I can’t really understand the motivation. And most importantly, that’s not even a Spurs game, bruh. That’s Magic-Hawks. It has nothing to do with you, and he’s got like a petition. He actually wants people to sign on, and I’m just, I’m a little confused by it.”

Kornet wrote that allowing the night to continue “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.”

He added that “others throughout the league” were surprised by the Hawks’ decision to have this promotional night.

“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,” he wrote.