I think it is pretty clear the Chinese don’t intend to permit the game to take place barring a full and public kowtowing from the NBA Commissioner:
Despite nearly every coach, player and staff member apologizing on behalf of Morey, China is severing financial connections with the league and discontinuing scheduled broadcasts.
Ahead of a preseason game between the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers set to take place Thursday, multiple videos have surfaced of NBA memorabilia being purged from the public view in Shanghai.
The move has many wondering if the game will be canceled.
NBA China update from Shanghai:
4:30pm NBA press conference was cancelled.
NBA fan event tonight cancelled.
Video shows how logo of Chinese Smartphone maker Vivo – an NBA advertiser – was covered on an NBA promotional sign.
Lakers-Nets scheduled to play in Shangai Thursday.
The Chinese are absolutely within their rights. They are a sovereign nation and the NBA is blatantly lying through its teeth about “free speech”, which it does not respect, practice, or support in any way, shape, or form. The NBA has literally nothing to complain about in light of the way it treated a former team owner over nothing more than comments of which it did not approve.
On the plus side, we have now discovered the one force capable of forcing Mark Cuban to keep his mouth shut. And President Trump is right to observe that these bozos have no problem shooting their mouth of about him, but they’re terrified to even mention an entire country, much less criticize it.
- Item: Silver refused to apologize and said the NBA doesn’t dictate what people can or can’t say.
- Item: Philadelphia 76ers fans kicked out of game for carrying ‘Free Hong Kong’ signs.
- Item: All of the NBA’s official Chinese partners have suspended ties with the league.
There is a lesson in this, people. You don’t have to let SJWs push you around.