LeBron James: Daryl Morey was 'misinformed' before sending tweet about China and Hong Kong

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  1. GChairman

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    I am tired of today's superstar athletes, Hollywood A listers, Musicians who have taken up the political mantle

    Gone are the days where sports, music, movies were there to entertain and they kept their private thoughts, well private.

    Now because they are seen as "heroes" that they should speak for society?

    Personally I think the Rocket GM should have kept his mouth shut, because the old saying is "people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones"
    His job is to be the GM of the Rockets not make Political statements

    Lebron James is a hypocrite and a moron for calling out the GM, perhaps he is the one who isnt educated, as he only went to high school and from there jumped into the NBA as a teen

    Between the idiots Alyssa Milano, Debra Messing, Madonna , Megan Rapanoe and others who decided to make their political stances known, well dont be surprised when people who pay for your services decides to boycott and tell you to "F" yourselves as we want nothing to do with you now.

    As in for the NBA, they have joined the ranks of the NFL as a leagues I will never pay to see another game or support ever again
    good riddance
     
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    And they seem very selective about who they confront and who they kow tow too:

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    Just like everyone in this forum where is titled to disagree and ridicule their stupid opinion.

    But really it's all about money.
     
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    Agreed. LeBron should be ****ing ashamed of himself. What a *****.
     
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    :bored:

    Nobody posts in the thread for 3 Days, and you *bump* it with some LAME Meme?:bored:

    Anyway, this whole "NBA/China" Thing is going to blow over and nobody will even care. :salute:
     
  7. HTownMarine

    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It was headline news on ESPN last night, a week and a half after.
     
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    Cowards.
     
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    I liked his acting in the Bruce Lee movie where he only spoke three words, "consider it done."
     
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    Freedom of speech. Simple. And now with Twitter and Facebook and other social media outlets, that speech becomes widespread.

    Celebs and pro athletes don't speak for society. They speak for themselves. And they have the right to do so. They also have the right to be wrong and make complete asses of themselves. And because of the size of their following, they make asses of themselves on a massive scale...unlike you and I who only make asses of ourselves on a relatively small scale.
     
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    I've never really understood the hero-worship issue that we seem to have. I view celebrities and athletes as nothing more than another person that does a different job.
     
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    Yeah athletes should just shut the **** up and dribble a ball, but every right winger here can spout off their limited intelligence and that is OK.
     
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    I completely agree. Our country has become obsessed with 'celebrity'. Children grow up wanting, simply, to be 'famous'.
     
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    It’s a dream come true over there. The govt controls exactly what you’re allowed to see or do, what to say, how to think, how many kids you can have, ect. Democrats love that ****.
     
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    American Democrats will use "election interference" (Facebook ads) as an excuse to impose Chinese Democrat style censorship on Americans. If Democrats come back to power, the Internet and places like this forum will be hardest hit.
     
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    yip, it baffles me, but the whole nba thing is about hypocrisy, Black Lives matter but china lives matter doesn't? <I have no problem for them being called out. BLM>CLM= Racist, its only fair :)

    But celebrity status, social outrage, the media, which I go out of my way to ignore, is insane. they just love to find dirt even when it doesn't exist, hell even tom brady had a mini chitstorm over his cameo in a tv series for walking out of a cloning spa because of the robert kraft incident, and the media (espn this morning) is totally throwing him under the bus over that and his attempt to diffuse the issue. Espn was literally laughing at him this morning "you created this and now you are blaming us?" <wtf, he didn't create anything, he did a 10 second cameo in a netflix series.
     
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    Im more afraid of social currency. You want a fast way to instantly clean up how people are allowed to think? Tie their entire life to their political views. You want a loan? Better vote for a Democrat! You want to shop at this store? Better vote Democrat.

    it’s right out of Black Mirror. Or Black Mirror is right out of what China has done. Scary as hell.
     
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    Except the majority of us dont suffer the delusion that folks hang on our every word.
     
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    ANALYSIS: TRUE. Pence: The NBA is a ‘Wholly Owned Subsidiary of China.’

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    "Some of the NBA's biggest players and owners who routinely exercise their freedom to criticize this country lose their voices when it comes to the freedom and rights of the people of China," Pence said. "It's siding with the Chinese Communist Party and silencing free speech."​

    "The NBA is acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of that authoritarian regime," he added. "A progressive corporate culture that willfully ignores the abuse of human rights is not progressive, it is repressive."​

    The vice president also took aim at Nike which, like many American corporations seeking to cash in by tapping into China's 1.4 billion consumers, sold its soul for a few bucks.

    Pence also took a swing at Nike, saying the sports apparel company prefers to check its "social conscience at the door" when it comes to Hong Kong.​

    "Nike stores in China actually removed their Houston Rockets merchandise from their shelves to join the Chinese government in protest against the Rockets general manager's seven-word tweet," he said.​

    Several Chinese partners have cut ties with the NBA after the tweet. The nation's largest broadcaster refused to air preseason games taking place in the country, and the government called for Morey to be fired.

    To abide by another culture's manners and mores is one thing. But to cower in the face of tyranny is never right. The NBA has enjoyed spectacular financial success to the point they can be as "woke" as they want to be. This includes the obligatory and now tiresome criticism of America, of Trump, of whites, of police -- anything and everything American.

    Their claims of being "oppressed" ring hollow. Really being "oppressed" means going into the streets and standing up for your rights and then getting shot down for your trouble. That's real oppression, not the fake, whiny mewling of overpaid, overgrown kids who want to kowtow to communists.
     

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