Posted on 06/02/2022 7:41:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Lakers star LeBron James has officially become the first active NBA player to obtain a net worth of $1 billion, according to Forbes.
Legendary NBA superstar Michael Jordan has also reached the lofty billion-dollar mark, but he didn’t accomplish that feat until 2014, long after he retired from the league.
Only $41 million worth of James’ considerable financial fortune comes from the Los Angeles Lakers team he plays for. The rest comes from shoe, movie, and clothing deals, the lion’s share of which is connected to Nike, which is among one of the dozens of international corporations linked to slave labor in China.
Nike, of course, is heavily invested in the Chinese market and said to have raked in upwards of $6 billion in China in just the last year. And as it happens, James is one of Nike’s biggest-selling names in the Chinese market.
As far as sports go, along with his stake in the Boston Red Sox, James also has a stake in Liverpool, a soccer team in the English Premier League.
Despite demonstrating a willingness to speak out on every single social justice issue and criticize his native country at will, James has remained entirely silent on the overwhelming evidence of human rights abuses in China. He has even defended his communist benefactors when given the opportunity.
In 2019, when then-Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey dared to support free speech rights for protesters in Hong Kong, James accused Morey of being “uneducated,” even going so far as to say there was a downside to free speech.
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imagine .. a billionaire .. from playing with a kids toy.
Unbelievable
He’s already got plans to p1ss it all away. Don’t worry.
An IQ of 50
His mouth will always be bigger than his bank account 🤪
Apes should stick to coconut ball
For someone who sounds as if he has a room temperature IQ, basketball has been berry berry good to him.
So Lebron benefits off of SLAVE labor in China. Anyone find it odd that a Black Man is benefiting from Slave Labor considering how Blacks are constantly whining about reparations for their ancestors being Slaves? So now a descendent of a Slave profits from Slave Labor. F*CKING Hypocrite Lebron
Yet another proof of the institutional racism of AmeriKKKa.
“imagine .. a billionaire .. from playing with a kids toy.”
Not only. He’s made many solid business decisions with the opportunities he’s been given.
How much of that was funded with welfare dollars given to fans of the sport...
Maybe now he can STFU about being discriminated against all his life. Hypocrite. He might hate America and the American flag but the boy would have never become a billionaire living in a hut in Africa. Only in America Lebron. ONLY IN AMERICA.
LeBron: China has been very, very good to me.
Yup, him and Oprah. “We is oppressed in America...”
LeBrawndo gonna buy him some Uighur slaves wit all dat Chinee cheddar!
Generous.
It must be terrible living in such a racist country...
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