CHINA vs the NBA.

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

If Chinese businesses want to ban the Houston Rockets over a tweet, it just makes them look foolish and authoritarian, justifying Morey's comment in the first place.

 

[Zombie]

The NBA is laughable...they pretend to be woke to progressive values and completely cave when their money is compromised.

"recognizing how offensive Morey's tweet was."

You have got to be ****ing kidding me.

 

[Zombie]

The NBA is laughable...they pretend to be woke to progressive values and completely cave when their money is compromised.

There's nothing more cringey than when giant corporations pretend to have "values."

Their values are making money. That's it.

 

[jom2003]

If Chinese businesses want to ban the Houston Rockets over a tweet, it just makes them look foolish and authoritarian, justifying Morey's comment in the first place.

But sterling was forced to sell the clippers due to his comments also. Morey should've saw it coming

 

[infection]

Someone said it above about the league pretending to be woke. Standing up for players/coaches/whoever saying whatever, but then when it hits a money source, the Rockets are having meetings about whether or not to fire Morey? Good hell.

 

[kabenac]

The funny thing is when I read the headline to this thread I thought of the new South Park episode.

RIP Winnie the Pooh.

 

[infection]

And there's nothing wrong with corporations staying out of politics but if you do make the mistake of getting involved you best not be a hypocrite.

It’s like companies making “brave” social/political stands on things that are generally appetizing to the American palate, but superficially viewed as edgy. None of these companies would take these “brave” stands if it weren’t also financially expedient. Trying voicing your opinion against China and whoever sponsors you, especially if they’re selling (and making) a lot of shoes in China, and they’ll tell you to STFU.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

But sterling was forced to sell the clippers due to his comments also. Morey should've saw it coming

Sterling was a racist who ran his organization with prejudice. That's a different situation entirely, and the NBA as a private organization can enforce its own rules.

 

[nateboz]

Morey says he supports Chinas protesters. That's offensive nowadays. Give me a break.

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[candrew]

Locke tweeted about the varying reactions to this situation from a sports perspective to a political one.

And then he promptly deleted it.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The funniest thing here is that the NBA makes way, way too much money as it is. This is ****ing ridiculous.

 

[jom2003]

Sterling was a racist who ran his organization with prejudice. That's a different situation entirely, and the NBA as a private organization can enforce its own rules.

See, now you are also making conclusions based on Sterling's personal comments alone, which really isn't that much different from those Chinese making a big fuzz about Morey's tweet. Besides the comments that he made in a private recording, there was never any substantial evidence to show Sterling ran the clippers with prejudice when he was the owner.

Likewise, what Morey openly posted on his Twitter account could be viewed by China as an evidence that he ran a Houston Rockets team with "prejudice" against the Chinese government. Since we all know that most of these Chinese corporations sponsoring the Rockets over all these years had strong ties to the Chinese government, Morey should've known the potential consequences that would come from the comments he made.

NBA is a private organization that enforce it's own rules. True.

But those Chinese corporations are no “private” organizations. The Chinese government sets the rules for them.