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EspañolIt is, nonetheless, quite unusual for an NBA team to embrace and center a business in which, in the most charitable interpretation possible, women take off their clothes for money and dance provocatively in (very) close proximity to the (mostly, but not all) male patrons. The NBA is, compared with most other major sports leagues, pretty progressive. But it’s still a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, with fans from all over the world and all parts of the political spectrum. Including some who, whether fans of the team or not, aren’t cool with the Hawks centering a place like Magic City. Those folks, though, probably didn’t buy the nearly 2,000 tickets the team sold, according to a team spokesman, in the first 24 hours after it announced the promotion. Or the more than 90 percent approval the team says it’s received on social media since Thursday’s announcement. “I don’t think that I’ve gotten as many requests for tickets to a game,” said Melissa Proctor, the Hawks’ and State Farm Arena’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “I have people saying, ‘Hold a hoodie for me on the side.'”
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