NBA Chooses New Orleans for 2017 All-Star Game

By Martel and Deslatte

Brett Martel, sports writer, New Orleans, and Melinda Deslatte, correspondent, Baton Rouge, for being first to report that the NBA was awarding its All-Star game to New Orleans after pulling it from Charlotte because of North Carolina’s state laws on LGBT rights. http://nyti.ms/2biotPI

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AUG. 29, 2016

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