--- title: Charlotte Will Pay a Huge Price for Losing the NBA All-Star Game description: Losing the NBA all star game over the 'bathroom bill' could cost North Carolina $100 million authors: - name: Ian Salisbury role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/ian-salisbury-2/ bio: Ian Salisbury was a senior editor at Money, focusing on investing, banks and mortgage. at_money_since: 2013 articles: 91 covers: - Lifestyle - Economy and Politics - Housing - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes former_staff: true published: '2016-07-22T14:47:34.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T02:59:23.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - all-star game - bathroom bill - Civil Rights - hb2 - LGBT - NBA - North Carolina - pubdesk - Transgender word_count: 283 canonical: https://money.com/all-star-game-charlotte-cost/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![2016 NBA All-Star Game](https://img.money.com/2016/07/gettyimages-510346424.jpg?crop=1110px%2C899px%2C4027px%2C2265px&quality=85) *Court-side action isn't all Charlotte's going to miss.* North Carolinians may see their "bathroom bill" as a stand on principle. But principles don't come cheap. In this case they are likely to cost $100 million. That's the likely size of Charlotte's missed economic opportunity, after the National Basketball Association said Thursday that it no longer planned to hold the 2017 all-star game in the Tar Heel State. [The controversial law](https://time.com/4341419/battle-of-the-bathroom/), passed in March, eliminates LGBT legal protection and restricts trangender people's rights to use the rest room of their choice. [On Thursday the NBA said](https://time.com/4417868/nba-all-star-game-charlotte/) the "climate created by HB2" -- as the law is known -- made it impossible to "successfully host our All-Star festivities" next year, although it held out the possibility of a game in 2019, assuming North Carolina finds an “appropriate resolution to this matter." Of course, the NBA isn't alone. A long list of prominent businesses, including United and American airlines, Hilton and Apple, [have already protest the North Carolina law](https://time.com/4397610/north-carolina-bathrooms-big-business/). But the NBA's move is likely to sting. Research conducted to measure the economic impact of other recent NBA all-star games suggests the move may cost Charlotte dearly. The NBA's 2014 game gave the local New Orleans economy a $106.1 million boost, [according to a study afterwards by the New Orleans Hospitality Research Center](http://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/local-economic-impact-nba-all-star-even-greater-projected/). The total included $60.4 million in direct spending on goods such as hotel rooms and souvenirs, plus another $45.7 million in ripple effects such when locals re-spent their extra earnings. The 2012 all-star game, in Orlando, was nearly as successful, [at least according to a study commission by its hosts, the Orlando Magic](http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-03/news/os-economic-impact-nba-all-stars-20120703_1_economic-impact-spending-orlando-magic-ceo). 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