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Golden State Warriors' center Al Horford made his thoughts clear on Luke Kornet's open letter on the Atlanta Hawks' 'Magic City Monday' event.
Afterit was announced that the Atlanta Hawkswere doing a promotion nightinvolving the well-known club ‘Magic City‘in an upcoming game, Luke Kornet of the San Antonio Spurs had a viral, strongly worded responseto the news. Now, Al Horford of the Golden State Warriors is letting his true thoughtsbe known on the issue.
In a post on X, quotingKornet’s letter he wrote to the Hawks denouncing the ‘Magic City Night’, Horford had a three-word response.
“Well said Luke,”he wrote.
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Well said Luke.
Horford’s post has since attracted more than 3.4 million impressions in only a few hours.
Kornet’s open letter to the Hawks, as well asHorford’s response, have since gone viraland raised concerns about how the decision ‘would poorly reflect’ on the NBA.
Al Horford Responds To LukeKornet’s Magic City Letter
The post made by the Hawks on February 26th, promoting ‘Magic CityMonday,’ a joint-sponsored event with the well-known club in the city,didn’t gain much attention until a few days later, Kornet responded by making a post on his blog about his thoughts on the move.
“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 neverbe subjected.”
Kornet denounced the move and asked that the Hawks cancel the promotional event.
Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, theSpurs’ backup point guard doubled down and elaborated on his take that has since gone viral.
“I feel like itdidn’t really represent what I know myself and a lot of others throughout the NBA felt,”he said, per ClutchPoints. “I want to make sure that part of the discussionis expressed.”
Kornet alsosaid that he spoke topeople within the league about taking further action to cancel the event, which has nowtaken the internet by storm.
Horford’s response toKornet’s lettersaw NBA fansagree with the perspective of the two. The big men played together on the Boston Celtics for a few seasons together.
According to Front Office Sports, Atlanta has no plans of canceling or changing the event, despite being called out by Horford and Kornet.
Is Al Horford On The Warriors’ Injury Report?
Back to Horford’s statuson the Warriors, the 39-year-old center who signed with Golden State over the offseason has been dealing witha number of injuries this year. Before the season, he announced that hewouldn’t be playing in any back-to-back games, and despite the major health concerns across theroster for the Warriors, that has remained true.
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Steve Kerr makes it very clear Al Horford will never play both games of a back-to-back this season
The plan is to look a week ahead at the schedule in collaboration with Al and Rick Celebrini
Currently, Horfordis not listed on GoldenState’sinjury report. However, the team is still dealing with concerning injuries with no return timeline for Stephen Curry and Kristaps Porzingis.Jimmy Butler is out for the season with a torn ACL, while the Warriors have seena few playersin andout of the injury report over the past few days.
In theteam’s latest game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday, Horford put up 17 points, six rebounds, and three assists on 45.5% shooting in 27 minutes.
On the season, the center is averaging 8.2 points,five rebounds, and 2.5 assists on 43.5% shooting in 39 games.
Horford signed a two-year, $11.6 million contract with the Warriors over the offseason and has a player option for next year.Golden Stateis currently 31-30 and will likelybe in the Play-In Tournament.