{"id":106076,"date":"2016-08-19T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=106076"},"modified":"2016-08-19T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T21:57:29","slug":"nba-moves-2017-all-star-game-to-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=106076","title":{"rendered":"NBA moves 2017 All Star Game to New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44628\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nbalogo.gif\" alt=\"nbalogo\" width=\"75\" height=\"122\" \/>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 The NBA has chosen to hold the 2017 All-Star Game in New Orleans after taking the midseason event away from North Carolina because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>The league announced Friday that New Orleans would replace Charlotte, which had been set to host the game until the NBA decided last month to move it elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike several other Southern states, Louisiana has not been swept up in legislative efforts to pass laws similar to that in North Carolina \u2014 a fact Gov. John Bel Edwards has touted while lobbying the NBA to bring its All-Star weekend to New Orleans for a third time.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star Game is scheduled for Feb. 19, which falls during the first weekend of Mardi Gras parades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 The NBA has chosen to hold the 2017 All-Star Game in New Orleans after taking the midseason event away from North Carolina because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people. The league announced Friday that New Orleans would replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106078,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106076\/revisions\/106078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}