Lebron James thinks Daryl Morey was misinformed on China [see updated OP for clarification]
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what repercussion, beyond lost business?
what do you really think could happen -- worst case, nba gets kicked out of china
Nah Tom already messed up with the maga hat, and his wife had to let him know they enjoy making money.
It would, so he isn't going to say anything.
Morey isn't a high profile NBA star. LeBron is talking about the repercussions of the tweet, and I do believe the NBA will take action if people continue to speak out and lose them business.
Yes, those repercussions. Lost business, potentially lost job for a coach or GM.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
yeah, aka just money
so idk what your point is
no one upset at lebron is ignorant of the money at stake
We'll see how much of that is the players and how much is the NBA/owners going forward I guess assuming they keep getting questions about this later in the season.
If the NBA were to pull out a China people much lower on the totem pole, making much less money would be the ones in danger of losing their jobs rather than the coaches and GMs.
Oh I guarantee that they will. This whole China/NBA thing not going anywhere.
Dude, LeBron has been playing the "I don't know enough" shit for over a decade. He pulled this same nonsense in 2007.
LeBron knows plenty, he just doesn't give a fuck when it will effect his money.
Why the hell do i feel like we're living in an NBA version of "Any Given Sunday"
all we need is Al Pacino and Lebron to do
all we need is Al Pacino and Lebron to do
Yeah, I don't see this going away. If it's true that the NFL ratings went down because people thought players were entitled for kneeling during the national anthem then I can't even imagine how much worse this will be.
Both the left and the right are crushing him and the NBA in general whereas the NFL was just the loony right.
My point is that's what LeBron was referring to when he made the comment. I was simply correcting the other posted by saying his comment wasn't about the actual situation in China, just the repercussions for talking about it and going against the will of China.
But if people are going to tweet about it, which is what LeBron's comments were about, that particular person may lose their job.
No one said Lebron deserved to be cancelled for that. He does deserved to get called out as a hypocrite or knucklehead for it though (leaning more towards knucklehead)
If Erdogan would (and he tried) , Winnie the Pooh would as well.
Those circumstances were very different because Kanter was a Turkish citizen and he has been very forceful denouncing Erodgan (entirely justified of course). The Chinese government was not going to forcefully detain a bunch of high-profile Americans and cause an international incident. They are authoritarian but unfortunately fairly competent in that they push against the boundaries of what is acceptable but know how not to cross it (as shown by how they've backed down their rhetoric against the NBA over the last week, but it's still had a chilling effect where I doubt anyone associated with the NBA would dare retweet or say anything pro-Hong Kong now).
Found it on Twitter:
Lmao, worse than "fuck them kids" tbh
Hope clippers rock lakers in the wcf 👀
Yup. The selfishness and lack of awareness there is really something. I'm sure it has been a difficult week for them, I wouldnt even argue that. Buttt can he maybe think of someone out there who may have possibly had a much worse week? A much worse entire lifetime??
It pisses me off he can just wave that off. He simply doesnt care.
"When you're only thinking about yourslef, not thinking about others.." He thought about the people of Honk Kong you fucking asshole. My god.
Yeah that's pretty good.Found it on Twitter:
I'm not asking for Lebron to be a real hero and publicly supports the Uyghurs and the people of Hongkong. But I didn't expect for him to throw them under the bus. What's not to understand about the situation about genocide and police brutality? It's sad that he thinks that he had a bad week but those millions of people are being tortured, killed under the Chinese rule, whose money he seems to have kneeled to. Unless he's a coward, whose too afraid of China. Which I guess goes to show that he's a coward, unless Chinese authorities personally paid him a visit during his stay there.
Exactly, and who can blame him? Xi personally threatened him and all critics worldwide to crush them until their bones shatter.
And if Xi Dada is reading this, he should know that I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
Absolute fucking coward. Staying silent is one thing (which I wouldn't mind tbh), but coming out and critising someone for expressing support of democracy is an absolute weaksauce move.
The players would've been fine, at worst they would have gotten kicked out of China. Anyone falling for that PR bs needs to take Lebron off his pedestal. He's just another greedy fuck in it for the $$$.