ESPN Reporter Allegedly Tells Sen. Josh Hawley ‘F*** You’ Over NBA, China Criticism

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allvol123 said:
You just stick with defending Lebron. You know the guy that claimed Morey needed to educate himself. Guess his degrees from Northwestern and MIT were not enough.
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Oh yeah, I forgot. We care more about when athletes fail to speak out against authoritarianism more than we care about POTUS felating authoritarians
 
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n_huffhines said:
You guys are so silly with the standard you hold NBA players to. Show me anybody who speaks out on something that will cost them and all the people they are professionally associated with millions of $. This behavior doesn't exist in the world. Most of you would eat China's **** for $100k, let alone be quiet for $100m.

You guys support politicians who sell you out to special interests for far less $, why look to pro athletes to be the most principled people on the planet? How desperate are you to attack them if this is the angle?
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I guess you can keep supporting them and sniffing their asses with your money and time, but there will be many that no longer will.
 
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TOTO: ‘Ask No Questions’ Shows Horrors Of Communist China; LeBron James Should Take Notice

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Hollywood stars have little to say about China, and for very good reason.

The film industry relies on the Communist nation to bolster its box office fortunes. At a time when expensive, IP-driven properties aren’t a sure thing, that matters.

Case in point: 2018’s “Tomb Raider” reboot, budgeted at $94 million. The Alicia Vikander film earned an anemic $58 million stateside. Its Chinese theatrical haul? An impressive $78 million.

The franchise would have gone back into hibernation without the Asian country’s backing. Now, MGM is prepping a sequel for a franchise few U.S. audiences care about in the first place.

Hollywood hearts China, now more than ever given the uncertainty surrounding the global pandemic. And if it means editing out “offensive” scenes, inserting Chinese propaganda into Marvel movies, or ignoring the country’s human rights abuses, so be it.

All of the above makes watching “Ask No Questions” infuriating.

TOTO: ‘Ask No Questions’ Shows Horrors Of Communist China; LeBron James Should Take Notice
 
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NBA Will Shutter Chinese Training Center

League operated center in same city as Muslim concentration camps

The NBA announced Tuesday that it has terminated its relationship with a league-run training academy in Xinjiang, China—the region in which the communist nation is reportedly holding roughly one million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps.

The announcement follows a June 30 letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) to NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Blackburn highlighted the league’s operation of an NBA academy in Xinjiang, which Blackburn described as "one of the world’s worst humanitarian zones."

The Tennessee Republican detailed ongoing atrocities in the region. Her letter noted that the "800,000 and possibly more than 2 million Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs" detained in Xinjiang concentration camps endure "torture, physical abuse, and prolonged detention without trial." The letter also said China used "sterilization treatments and forced abortions in a barbaric attempt to reduce Uyghur birth rates."

"The NBA reportedly continues to operate a training center [in] Xinjiang," Blackburn wrote. "What steps is the NBA taking to shutter this location?"

NBA Will Shutter Chinese Training Center - Washington Free Beacon
 
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I certainly don't think the NBA knew the extent of abuse going on, but they had to know something. The NBA has a huge problem with China, they also have the ability to effect some change, not that China will stop persecution of Muslims but they can use their voice and platform.
 
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KB5252 said:
I certainly don't think the NBA knew the extent of abuse going on, but they had to know something. The NBA has a huge problem with China, they also have the ability to effect some change, not that China will stop persecution of Muslims but they can use their voice and platform.
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Did you read the quote from the NBA coach featured in the ESPN report?

Edit: Everyone needs to read the ESPN article
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ajvol01 said:
Did you read the quote from the NBA coach featured in the ESPN report?
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Yes, the former coach that witnessed a ball guys at a player and then kicked. I'm not sure who the coach was and who's ear he had. I'm sure he reported it to someone but who knows where it went from there.

Not absolving NBA from blame, if they wanted to know they would have.
 
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KB5252 said:
Yes, the former coach that witnessed a ball guys at a player and then kicked. I'm not sure who the coach was and who's ear he had. I'm sure he reported it to someone but who knows where it went from there.

Not absolving NBA from blame, if they wanted to know they would have.
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NBA is pretty deep into this IMO - protecting their $5 billion enterprise
 
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ajvol01 said:
NBA is pretty deep into this IMO - protecting their $5 billion enterprise
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Deep into what, exactly? This isn't a good look, but if they didn't know the conditions were bad and now they're trying to improve things*, at worst you got them trying to keep a story quiet. Who among us wouldn't ask our employees not to talk to the press about something like this?

*they closed the xinjiang facility, so this seems obvious
 
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n_huffhines said:
Deep into what, exactly? This isn't a good look, but if they didn't know the conditions were bad and now they're trying to improve things*, at worst you got them trying to keep a story quiet. Who among us wouldn't ask our employees not to talk to the press about something like this?

*they closed the xinjiang facility, so this seems obvious
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You are wasting your time. They want LeBron, and the NBA, to take a tougher stance on China then the POTUS does. Backwards world.
 
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