Have a lot of thoughts. All I’ll say for now is when it rains it pours for the @NBA http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29553829/espn-investigation-finds-coaches-nba-china-academies-complained-player-abuse-lack-schooling
The league has known about the China abuse for awhile. China is as scary for them as restarting next season because of the governmental ramdocations.
Adam Silver will need to answer why the human rights concerns of Uighur Muslims and Chinese youth enrolled in his league’s program weren’t important to him.
(I know the answer, but it’s important that it’s public. The brand the league tries to portray is nothing but marketing.)
COVID-19 is going to undress him for the world to see.
Too afraid to upset the White House because he’ll be asking for a bailout soon and doesn’t want to be brought in front of a committee.
Too afraid to upset China because still wants the money.
Too afraid to upset the White House because he’ll be asking for a bailout soon and doesn’t want to be brought in front of a committee.
Too afraid to upset China because still wants the money.
He’s worse than Stern because Stern never hid what he was about. He deserves all the PR fallout that should/will come for this. These are human beings he turned a blind eye to. All in the name of money.
This is so fucking timely: