With the NBA pulling the All-Star Game out of Charlotte on Thursday, reports circulated that Brooklyn was a possibility to land the game. But a league source told The Post the Barclays Center was “not in the mix,” despite having been a candidate several years ago to host the 2017 or 2018 game.
When New York/Brooklyn was awarded the 2015 All-Star Weekend, the NBA, Nets and Knicks had talks that would’ve reversed the roles for the 2017 or 2018 game — the All-Star Game at Barclays with the other events at the Garden.
The league yanked the game from Charlotte due to a North Carolina House Bill 2, dubbed the “bathroom bill,” which requires transgender people to use restrooms in public buildings and schools that match the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity.