Salt Lake City is going to lose the All-star game in 2023, and the NBA will be right to move the event out of a state whose legislature has doubled down on inequitable participation in sports.
There is precedent for the league taking such action. In 2017 the NBA moved the all-star game from Charlotte to New Orleans in objection of North Carolina’s passage of the state’s House Bill 2, which limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the state. The all-star game returned to Charlotte in 2019, after North Carolina repealed the bill.