Magic Metropolis Legend
Come Test Us Out, Luke Kornet
… Do not Knock ‘Until You Strive!!!
Revealed
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A legendary Magic Metropolis dancer tells TMZ Sports activities it is clear Luke Kornet‘s by no means visited the strip membership … ‘trigger if he did, he would not have criticized the Atlanta Hawks’ promotion honoring the place.
We spoke with Gigi Maguire — one among Magic Metropolis’s biggest performers — this week to debate the noise surrounding the NBA workforce selling her former office throughout their sport in opposition to the Orlando Magic on March 16.
Kornet — a Kentucky native and San Antonio Spurs middle — known as the tribute disrespectful to ladies … however Maguire argues that Luke and different critics have by no means actually skilled Magic Metropolis, so their judgment is predicated solely on what they’ve seen in films.
“He should see it for himself,” Maguire mentioned. “I think that a lot of people that have a negative in their mind about strip are the ones that have never been.”
“They see movies like ‘Players Club’ and ‘Hustle & Flow,’ and, you know, they see that the dancers are disrespected in media and they see the dancers are portrayed to have drug problems and stuff like that, and they think that’s what it really is, and I’m here to tell you that it’s not bad. It’s not that at all.”
Maguire — who retired from Magic Metropolis and is now a businesswoman, producer, and voice on Angela Yee‘s “Lip Service” podcast — harassed that there shall be no bare strippers on the sport, leaving her puzzled by the outrage over the Hawks’ tribute.
“It’s not that deep. It’s one night,” Maguire mentioned, “Can adults have one night to celebrate something that is very important to the city of Atlanta?”
She additionally known as out Kornet for “selective outrage,” noting he hasn’t had the identical vitality when NBA gamers have been accused of wrongdoing towards ladies prior to now.
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We additionally spoke to a different Magic Metropolis legend concerning the backlash over Hawks’ tribute night time … Sonya Meadows, identified on stage as Platinum. The now-author mentioned stripping is not disrespectful to ladies — it is leisure, similar to Cirque du Soleil.
“We can’t put a stigma on entertainment,” Meadows mentioned.
Will these two women put a cease to the backlash?? Extremely uncertain … nevertheless it’s clear they’re captivated with setting the report straight.
