Because I can never remember you complaining about them. That's why. That is til its time to bash the NBA. You are extremely naive if you believe that the NBA has the power to change the minds of Chinese Govt.

I stated before that I agree with Morey. Don't know why you are continuing to ask senseless questions. Provide examples of you railing against countries for being human rights violators and then maybe your statements will have validity. As it stands now they don't

"Human Rights Violators" sounds like an MTV China Rock-n-Jock team.

You often use this strawman. There are plenty of things I don't remember you complaining about and it doesn't mean you think there is nothing wrong with it.

I am against humans rights violations in China. It's a controversial stance to be sure but I am.

Actually, you got me. I love human rights violators.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

I'm sure the like you the NBA is against human rights violators in China as well. Also like you they just aren't willing to stop doing business with them as a result.

This country sold their soul to perpetrators of human rights abuses a long time ago. When I referenced it guys like you always thought that it was no big deal that they did. Now you attempt to hold the NBA to a standard that you yourself do not possess. A standard that you never had any use for previously in fact. Its why you can not provide any example of being previously outraged. With that being the case you might as well spare me with the indignation now. Rings hollow.

This whole thread is weird. Not sure why LTG is getting defensive. Of course the NBA looks utterly shameful and hypocritical here.

This whole thread is weird. Not sure why LTG is getting defensive. Of course the NBA looks utterly shameful and hypocritical here.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

I think he's defensive because criticizing the NBA is racist or something

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

If you look at the swirl of demands, statements, apologies, retractions, overreactions, and poses that followed Morey’s original tweet, this might look like a complicated story, a story of accidental cultural conflict brought about through deep geopolitical nuance. It isn’t. It’s just another nasty little farce about money and power and the breathtaking speed with which 21st-century capitalists are prepared to sell out democracy for a Skee-Ball token. The Chinese market is strategically important to the NBA’s global expansion. The Rockets, the team that drafted Yao Ming in 2002, are the second-most-popular team in China, according to a recent survey. The Chinese authorities, like most autocratic governments, love manufacturing controversies that let them pretend to have the moral high ground while stirring up nationalist sentiment on social media. Everyone in this situation is acting out the role dictated to them by this set of circumstances. Almost none of it has to do with principle, or even with sincere belief.

For the most part, though, you’ll never be surprised if you assume that the devotion of sports owners to their own self-interest, and of sports leagues to their owners’ self-interest, is absolute. The NBA wants you to see it as politically progressive to the precise extent that your seeing it as progressive helps the bottom line and no further. Tilman Fertitta, the Rockets’ owner, occasionally goes on CNBC to praise Donald Trump, from whom he bought an Atlantic City casino in 2011, and to say things like “Obamacare does not work.” He has no problem then turning around and declaring that the Rockets are a “non-political organization” to make nice with China, because what he means by “non-political organization” is that he thinks hundred-dollar bills are nice, and also fuck you.

Mr. Mouse has spoken

Fair and balanced?

Fair and balanced?

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

So do all of the people currently condemning them over it.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

This article seems to sum it all up pretty well

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/10/7 ... oseph-tsai

Britain's first nation in if China violates the terms of the handover treaty. We'd inevitably follow Britain's lead...eventually. "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

Lol Churchill.

The Brits barely have a government. They are not attacking China.

They've never let that stop them before. Britain's like your pipsqueak friend who picks fights at the bar and then expects you to jump in.

Sounds like the CCP is equally, perhaps more upset/jealous that Morey was in Tokyo when he tweeted his benign support for "Freedumb" in HK. They take note that Adam Silver's busy issuing his daily responses to his previous responses from Japan as well:

"We're strongly dissatisfied and oppose Adam Silver's claim to support Morey's right to freedom of expression,"