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N.B.A. Commissioner: China Asked Us to Fire Daryl Morey
NYT ^ | Oct. 17, 2019 | Sopan Deb

Posted on 10/17/2019 6:07:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Chinese government asked the N.B.A. to fire a team executive who posted on social media in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver, said on Thursday in his first public appearance in the United States since returning from a contentious trip to Asia.

“We said there’s no chance that’s happening,” Silver said. “There’s no chance we’ll even discipline him.”

The executive, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, set off the international firestorm with a Twitter post using a slogan used by the protesters in Hong Kong, just as the league was preparing to stage games in Shanghai and Shenzhen between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Nets. Morey later deleted the post.

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To: yesthatjallen

He forgot to add “but we will make sure that no one associated with the nba will ever utter a negative word about our chinese overlords”.


21 posted on 10/17/2019 6:52:49 PM PDT by robel
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To: Snake Skin Sonny

I love college basketball. March madness is a fun time at our house.

I’ve never been to an nba game or watched it on tv. I do remember magic Johnson, Larry bird, Chris mullin. I have no interest in the nba.


22 posted on 10/17/2019 6:53:15 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Snake Skin Sonny

I love college basketball. March madness is a fun time at our house.

I’ve never been to an nba game or watched it on tv. I do remember magic Johnson, Larry bird, Chris mullin. I have no interest in the nba.


23 posted on 10/17/2019 6:54:19 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: bramps
But we will trade LeBron James for a Pu Pu Platter.

My kids screamed in terror when I told them I was going to order Pu Pu Platter for them at the chinese restaurant.

Thank you for bringing that cherished memory back to life... :)
24 posted on 10/17/2019 6:59:00 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe there is some “brass” in that Silver. Hope so. Otherwise, the NBA will go the way of the fascist-led (Goodell) NFL, aided and abetted by Comrade Marxist Crapperhead and his red toadies in Kerr, Bennett and Curry.


25 posted on 10/17/2019 7:40:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: grumpygresh

The Marxist Left has always had a toehold or more in the NY Times and Wash. Post. You just had to know who to look at (read) and who they associated with.

Did you know that NYT Times leftist Vietnam reporter Elizabeth Becker was the only major newspaper journalist to participate in a “Hanoi Lobby” created/run anti-Vietnam protest? (In NY, about 1972. Will try to find the exact article). Other NYT writers and guest Op-Ed writers were KGB or Communist Party members/sympathizers, including Wilfred Burchett (KGB, Australian CP, Red Chinese operative during the Korean War), Anthony Lewis (communist disinformation specialist on Vietnam), and Obit page manager/writer, former 12 year CP member who the Party continued to count on to “write well about the left dead” (possible paraphrase from one of their theoretical journals (possible Political Affairs).


26 posted on 10/17/2019 7:46:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: yesthatjallen

Let Lebron go and hold General Tso’s Chicken.


27 posted on 10/17/2019 7:52:59 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

It goes back even further. NYT did positive stories on Stalin in the 1930s while he was starving out Ukraine. They also spiked stories of Jews, political dissidents interned in concentration camps during the late 30s in Nazi Germany.


28 posted on 10/17/2019 8:03:43 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If I were Morey...I would tweet again...even more support for the democracy advocate/protesters in Hong Kong. Just double down as it were. And then tell Adam Silver...LBJ and anyone else to kiss my ass.


29 posted on 10/17/2019 8:05:52 PM PDT by yukong
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To: yesthatjallen

Their Chinese masters will not like that.


30 posted on 10/17/2019 9:20:50 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: PGR88

When you do business in China, literally everything is political. You will be the Chinese Communist Party’s prison byatch. There’s no way around it

China. Welcome to late-stage corporatism, or more bluntly fascism.


31 posted on 10/17/2019 9:33:21 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: pilgrim

Hey we’re both smart! :)

Thought the same thing.

no outrage, this statement doesn’t happen.


32 posted on 10/17/2019 9:47:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: VanDeKoik

lol.


33 posted on 10/17/2019 9:48:57 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: gcparent

You don’t have to like or watch the NBA. The concern is about supposed American capitalists slobbering over totalitarian communist members.

It is disgusting and debasing, much like Zerohissef bowing to the Saudis.


34 posted on 10/17/2019 10:32:41 PM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Wasn’t he already disciplined? Was he pressured to delete his tweet and apologize? Didn’t Tillman Fertita jump down his throat?


35 posted on 10/17/2019 11:14:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: PGR88
Waiting for the day in Big Tech HR corporate compliance training we are instructed to honor China at all times. Homofascists got that and even hang their gay pride flag in the cafeteria all year long now, not just in June.

Conquered territory.

36 posted on 10/17/2019 11:16:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: TBP

Is China behind the NBA’s support for gun bans in the USA?


37 posted on 10/17/2019 11:18:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: bramps

I have never had a Pu Pu Platter. The name doesn’t sound right. But I’ll trade one for LeBron James. I’ll trade him for a rusty tin can.


38 posted on 10/17/2019 11:19:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

In a tangential manner: Canned smoked oysters at Trader Joe’s come from South Korea, not PRC


39 posted on 10/18/2019 12:13:27 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: BigEdLB

Does Trader Joe take LeBron Jameses?


40 posted on 10/18/2019 12:36:06 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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