ESPN:
LONG BEFORE AN October tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters spotlighted the NBA’s complicated relationship with China, the league faced complaints from its own employees over human rights concerns inside an NBA youth-development program in that country, an ESPN investigation has found.
American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the complaints.
The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.
A former league employee compared the atmosphere when he worked in Xinjiang to “World War II Germany.” more here
It’s those scary Chinese seeds!
So they wanted the players to play basketball and nothing else since even the chinese understood that these jackasses, just like actors, are good at 1 thing only and none of them were going to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons.
Who gives a fuck!
By the way Toronto, If KD was not injured Golden state would have pissed all over us just like they did for the quarter and a half that KD did play before severely getting injured.
You think the NBA has problems, well, Seattle can top that!
Release the Kraken! The Story Behind Seattle’s New Hockey Team Name:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/07/29/seattle-kraken/
Seattle already has competing Krakens: Durkan and Sawant.
seriously … the CCP looks at all personal services (such as sports participants) as slave labor … anyone w/ half a brain could have told the NBA that simple fact. instead they went for the ‘easy’ $$$’s … now, they find themselves servants of China
assholes …. now, we’re supposed to feel sorry for them? … eat shit & choke on your sneaker contracts
(which, btw, is why all their sneakers are made by Chinese slave labor, as well as Crapple crap we can’t do without & all the other crap we buy from Cramazon)
China has taken the lead from the American (African) players themselves who show little if any effect of schooling whatsoever, and appear to be masters of abuse when it comes to fellow human beings of either sex.
@Jimmy ~ after seeing what’s been going on in Seattle ….
maybe a better team name would be the ‘Craven’
… the ‘Blacken’?
Molon, there are so many possibilities that iOTW could host a renaming contest for the new team.
This should be front page of every sports section in the country.
The NBA. The kneeling, put a Social Justice document in place of your name on your jersey, whose star player frequently disrespects the President on social media, lends it’s name and brand to a Chicom concentration camp for young players who are physically assaulted by coaches while stacked like wood, 10 to a room built for one, in a quest to find the next Yao Ming.
NBA don’t care about yellow people.
This is for every US business in China though. All those people collaborating with Nazi Germany before WW2? That’s you now except they could claim they didn’t know what the Nazis were up to. You do know. You don’t care.
So? Sounds like the NBA fucked up…again.