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Lebron James thinks Daryl Morey was misinformed on China [see updated OP for clarification]
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My mistake in phrasing, I meant report the "shut up and dribble " comments ,as they don't serve any purpose but to troll , derail, and juuust skirt enough around actual racist rhetoric
Two too many.
I did misread it but thanks for the clarification.
Okay but why? It's not an epic own, it's making black people in this thread uncomfortable. I'm Jewish, if a prominent Jewish celebrity sided with China for their own financial benefit, I wouldn't be happy if people started repeating antisemitic talking points about Jews being greedy "sardonically." There just isn't a need for it.
You need to try to slow down and read what people are writing. Nobody is calling for you to be reported.
I get that, but you're getting super defensive and firing off responses without considering what people are actually saying.
I legit really liked LeBron before this. Yeah, he's arrogant, and yeah, "THE DECISION" was insanely stupid, but he's done a lot of good for his community and seems overall pretty nice.
This is pretty freaking dense, though. I don't think he's dumb by any means, I just think he's got the same money-goggles on that many people do once they come into a position of power/fame/fortune. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. I'm appreciating all the people online and in Hong Kong that are lambasting him.
This is pretty freaking dense, though. I don't think he's dumb by any means, I just think he's got the same money-goggles on that many people do once they come into a position of power/fame/fortune. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. I'm appreciating all the people online and in Hong Kong that are lambasting him.
This thread is all over the place.
Also, judging by the media attention, LeBron effectively just made himself the Antonio Brown of the NBA.
Also, judging by the media attention, LeBron effectively just made himself the Antonio Brown of the NBA.
I simply misread a post. I am not sure what else to tell you.
I haven't seen much sports media attention at all on this. Seems like most places are staying away since they don't want to comment on China.
Hes clearly trying to become a mogul, and money is an all consuming thing once you get enough of it. He has done charitable work but I now put him in the category of the ultra wealthy that are intent on maximising their profits over any sort of morality, aka the 1 percent.
LeBron?! I'd argue his story has been getting more attention than the postseason right now. Most are just ripping him.
Fanaticism is a scary thing. It's the reason why Trump can continue getting away with what he does and still have people fervently support him.
Hmm, I guess they're just not putting these segments on YouTube as much
This was good:
This was reaaally bad:
Interesting how ESPN aren't posting any of this stuff. Stephen A. with the race talk...
This was reaaally bad:
Interesting how ESPN aren't posting any of this stuff. Stephen A. with the race talk...
Imagine calling the GM of the most popular NBA team in China uninformed about China. The sheer stupidity of that alone should have stopped him from going that route, but nope.
I'm shocked ESPN let them go as far as they did discussing any of the China stuff in a negative light.
It's not worth getting up in arms about because Sports Media is always gonna Sports Media but Stephen A chewing up the scene with race and whataboutisms isn't really surprising but Max doing the hard backpedal and saying he doesn't think Lebron is a sellout even though just yesterday he said Lebron sold out.
Ever since undisputed came on i've liked Shannon with the sole exception of when he goes into Super Saipan Stan mode for LeBron. And while I agree with him and most people that there shouldn't be a desire to try to systematically tear down whatever good LeBron has done up to this point, hearing him keep referring to this as a misstep is being far too charitable.
His initial comments were a misstep. Him doubling down on it with the tweets was ill advised. Tripling down on it at practice yesterday just makes the whole thing a massive blunder that makes him a sellout or at the absolute least puts him very very close to being one.
Even more so for someone who gets lauded for the way he handles the media and how much he looks to curate his image.
I don't think even the biggest of LeBron fans would have anticipated him tripling down the way he has.
Good on Lebron for getting to the heart of the issue. After all, what if one of the organ harvesters saw Morey's tweet and decided not to take his family to see Space Jam?
I love how every single media person defending Lebron has financial stakes in China. Hope John Oliver keeps calling this dumb dumb out.
We'll see how this works out for LeBron. His long term actions will probably depend on what effect it has on his money, since I doubt he cares too much about his public perception outside of that.
Harden outright said he loves China, so he's pretty up there himself.
I would imagine he's more informed than LeBron, but the Rockets being popular in China doesn't really tell us much about how informed Morey is.
The fact that he travels there a ton and is considered to be one of the smartest people in the NBA leads me to believe Lebrons statement about him was misinformed and uneducated.
Selling out is all too easy when there are conflicts of interest abound. Its a problem of power and access. Corruption is easily created this way
spoilers: anta's relationship with hayward wasn't great to begin with
jk i'm assuming a lot of companies are starting to pull back on their initial reactions
People quoting that tweet without reading the whole article highlight why you can't have real conversations about anything. People just trying to get their dunk on instead of talk about the issue. Lebron is wrong in this situation as a whole but those tweets ignore some pretty damn crucial context given in the very same fucking article. Like come on people.
Silver coming to these dudes and telling them they need to speak on the issue to defend the image of the league is fucking horseshit. He himself hadn't even addressed the Chinese media yet. Lebron is right, why should this fall on the players now to make sure they don't fuck up and say something even more damaging on an issue they obviously have little understanding of? Morey has every right to make that tweet but why the fuck should the players need to suffer the firestorm for the good of the league here?
I don't understand how people don't see Lebron's point. And he is right, a player couldn't get away with this shit without serious repercussions. If they are now being expected by the commissioner to salvage this shit, they can ask what is being done with Morey. That's not off limits given the situation at hand.
Silver coming to these dudes and telling them they need to speak on the issue to defend the image of the league is fucking horseshit. He himself hadn't even addressed the Chinese media yet. Lebron is right, why should this fall on the players now to make sure they don't fuck up and say something even more damaging on an issue they obviously have little understanding of? Morey has every right to make that tweet but why the fuck should the players need to suffer the firestorm for the good of the league here?
I don't understand how people don't see Lebron's point. And he is right, a player couldn't get away with this shit without serious repercussions. If they are now being expected by the commissioner to salvage this shit, they can ask what is being done with Morey. That's not off limits given the situation at hand.
The problem is, people WILL think twice about LeBron intention on his Charity/Social Justice stance. You see, he is doing it ONLY because it is good to promote his brand. Now when the money is on the line, he folded.
Not everybody will think this way, but definitely some will start viewing him so.
I don't like that the tweet is calling out Morey specifically. This isn't representative of HK or what he was trying to shed light on.
But it turns out some pretty bad things are indeed being said and that poster wasn't just making stuff up. I want the best for them either way but you hate to see it.
"Made a fair comment." Fuck off rando tweeter. Trying to disparage an entire group of people by pointing to the shitty actions of a few is so fucking disgusting. I wonder what the agenda could be here. Hmmmm
While I don't doubt there are some extremely shitty people also involved with the protests as that image highlights, it's pretty clear that the account bringing it up has an obvious agenda against the protesters. If anyone knows what it's like for someone to try and take the bad actions of a small group of people and use it to try and taint a whole movement it's us black people.
Taking my first mandarin class and recognized the last word and burst out laughing as I knew what the rest of it said from that. Brilliant.
You don't have to read between his lines when he brought up people were hurt financially, first and foremost.
The poster made claims so I was curious to see what some of them were saying and this was all I could find.
Already gave my two cents on the tweet.
This comment is just plain gross.
Took the words out of my mouth. Look at a random selection of comments and use it to paint everyone with the same brush. FOH
