It turns out Luke Kornet and Al Horford weren’t the only people in the NBA who thought honoring Atlanta’s most famous strip club with its own night at State Farm Arena was a bad idea. Just a week before the Atlanta Hawks were set to celebrate “Magic City Monday” during their home game against the Orlando Magic, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called foul, cancelling the event. 

The Hawks expressed their disappointment at the move in a statement of their own, saying the team respects the commissioner’s decision.

The Hawks originally announced the Magic City Monday promotion two weeks ago, detailing an event that would feature an appearance from Atlanta rapper T.I. and include the club’s revered chicken wings on the game-day menu. The limited edition, $150 Magic City hoodie also sold out in hours on the Hawks’ website.

While nearly every city has strip clubs that pro athletes frequent, Magic City has a special place in NBA lore because it ties together several cultural touchstones between athletics, business, and music. The downtown Atlanta club is known as much as a venue for dealmaking among the street, hip-hop, political, and business elite as it is for adult entertainment. It is often referenced in rap lyrics and frequented by athletes when they play away games in Atlanta.

But not every player thinks this is a good look for the NBA. San Antonio Spurs player Kornet wrote a Medium post encouraging the league to consider its women fans and cancel the event, a sentiment that Golden State Warriors center and former Hawks draft pick Horford supported with a post on X.