NBA Caving To China...

[seer]

Craven suck ups...

NBA Fans Supporting Hong Kong Protests Are Getting Kicked Out Of Games And Their Signs Confiscated

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...signs-protests

A CNN reporter was cut off by an NBA spokesperson while asking Houston Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook about the ongoing free speech furor surrounding Chinahttps://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...china-scandal/



https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/spor...fine-line.html

How one tweet snowballed into the NBA's worst nightmare


https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/busin...ner/index.html

[rogue06]

From another thread:

Who exactly did they call out? Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets or China.

You can see the NBA groveling before China here:

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And published in the New York Times editorial section:

Source: The World�s Wokest Sports League Bows to China

The N.B.A. apologizes on behalf of Daryl Morey, a general manager who voiced support for democracy.Source

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The NBA's carefully concocted image of being champions of social justice has just evaporated.

Look close kiddies. China is showing you how your Socialist utopias handles even the slightest "transgression"

[KingsGambit]

The byline of the Breitbart article in the OP is incorrect. The reporter was cut off by a Houston Rockets employee, not an NBA spokesperson. The NBA actually threw the Rockets employee under the bus for doing so this afternoon.

With one simple tweet, Morey is like the Franz Ferdinand of this news cycle, disrupting possibly billions of dollars (the NBA has invested significantly in China since Yao Ming entered the league in 2002), and has also raised general awareness of the Uyghur detention camps. Possibly not coincidentally, Mike Pompeo has revoked the visas of Chinese officials alleged to participate in these mass detentions. This is all for the good. But ultimately, there's little anybody can do about it. China does what China wants.

[seer]

The NBA's carefully concocted image of being champions of social justice has just evaporated.

Like going after North Carolina because of the bathroom law. Paragons of courage!

[KingsGambit]

Like going after North Carolina because of the bathroom law. Paragons of courage!

We haven't forgotten that attack on our economy over here.

[seer]

We haven't forgotten that attack on our economy over here.

Nor should you, they are only principled when they have nothing to lose...

[Juvenal]

China Blows Whistle on Nationalistic Protests Against the N.B.A.
Unintended consequences.

[Mountain Man]

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[seer]

LEBRON BOWS TO COMMUNISTS

Los Angeles (AFP) - Basketball superstar LeBron James was accused of turning a blind eye to Chinese repression on Tuesday after he criticized a Houston Rockets executive for angering China with a "misinformed" tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong.

James told reporters that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" on Hong Kong and should have kept his mouth shut, as the outspoken Lakers forward waded into a charged debate that other high-profile NBA figures have shied away from.

"So many people could have been harmed not only financially but physically, emotionally and spiritually. So just be careful with what we tweet, and we say, and we do," James told reporters when asked for comment in Los Angeles after returning from the NBA's annual China tour.

His remarks drew praise from Chinese social media users, who have savaged Morey for butting into the country's affairs, but the US reaction on Twitter was swift and harsh.

"@KingJames — you're parroting communist propaganda. China is running torture camps and you know it," said Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, referring to China's reported incarceration of up to one million Muslim Uighurs in prison-like camps.

https://sports.yahoo.com/lebron-unde...2730--nba.html

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[KingsGambit]

I've been a LeBron fan for all 16 years he's been in the league, but no longer. If I end up going to a Hornets game this year and it happens to be against the Lakers, I'm booing him.

[Leonhard]

Now also Blizzard Entertainment, banning players from their E-Sports tournament who express sympathy for Hong Kong, and even outright banning Winnie The Pooh cosplays from an upcoming convention.

They banned the player Blitzchung, who is a world champion player, for a short statement he said during a stream in favor of the Hong Kong protests: This was a permanent ban and they completely revoked his price money. Later after outrage expressed from both the right and the left, they caved a bit, reduced the ban to a six-month ban and gave him back his prize money.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/11/76936...=1571606131499

Source: NPR

Facing public backlash over penalizing a gamer for his statements in support of Hong Kong protesters, Blizzard Entertainment released a statement late Friday announcing a reduction of his penalties.

Blizzard Entertainment initially banned professional esports player Blitzchung from competitions for 12 months and rescinded his 2019 winnings, said to be $10,000, over his statements in support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.

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[Juvenal]

Now also Blizzard Entertainment ...

One of our goals at Blizzard is to make sure that every player, everywhere in the world, regardless of political views, religious beliefs, race, gender, or any other consideration always feels safe and welcome both competing in and playing our games.

Well, that settles that, then.

[Juvenal]

Well, that settles that, then.

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[KingsGambit]

I can't be upset about Blizzard banning of the Winnie the Pooh stereotypes, though. How is that not a blatant ethnic slur based on stereotypes of the happy fat Asian man? (And it's one I've seen repeated by a lot of people online.)