Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey spoke out in...

foreseeable future.

So the NBA wants to expand to China. It's a cash cow. The Chinese like basketball.

Last October they were there doing exhibition stuff. The GM for the Houston Rockets tweeted in support of the democracy protests in Hong Kong.

China immediately pulled NBA games from TV, removed merchandise, threatened to remove all the players from their country.

The NBA immediately bowed down to China and begged for forgiveness.

So here, in the US, equality is paramount and 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' is on the courts. Players can wear jerseys with names and slogans. And if you don't let them, they'll sit out the season, etc.

Meanwhile China has crushing communism, and tried to get an extradition bill passed to extradite anyone who protests for democracy. Not a problem for the NBA, just give us our money.

The almighty dollar is more important than true equality and justice.

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Aug 14, 2020, 5:57 PM [ in reply to I don't understand this. ]

support of Hong Kong's resistance to the CCP taking over there. He was admonished by someone and backed away from the statement. Lebron played down the situation in Hong Kong. I'm guessing perhaps you know that Hong Kong was the standard of free speech in the region.

Evidently the markets in China mean more to the social justice warriors in professional sports than liberty and freedom for those who are oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party which rules China.

Imo, the oppression there makes Cuba during the Che and Castro takeover look like a child's tea party. The CCP has reeducation camps which house estimated 1 million muslims for being faithful to their god.

Here we are arguing over trivial political topics and none seem to small for us. Hong Kong is losing its freedom to the most oppressive government on earth right now.

It is a big deal when people like Lebron, Nike, Kapernick and other prominent sports figures kneel against the one flag on earth which flies as a symbol of freedom then stands for the one flying over the most oppressed.

I don't keep up with the NBA either. I try to keep up with politics though.