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THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP
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so forget the tweet giving more insight & explanation of what was "misinformed".... we're just gonna ignore that
and nowhere did i take his comments as choosing the NBA over folks being oppressed in China.. He just knows that the NBA's involvement in this is gonna do absolutely nothing in helping that situation & it is negatively impacting the league.
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shouts to Zach for being reasonable and not letting these calculus coaches deter him from doing things that make sense on the basket ball court
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so forget the tweet giving more insight & explanation of what was "misinformed".... we're just gonna ignore that
This one?
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He's trying to silence Morey.
He's essentially saying you're uneducated, shut up and dribble. The SAME sh*t Fox News did to him.
I’ll just put it like this. He used Laura Ingram talking points on Morey. If you don’t want to mess with your China money, I get it. A simple no comment or non answer would’ve sufficed instead of publicly airing Morey out.
As for Lebron complaining about the timing of the tweet being inconvenient. I get the frustration and annoyances it may have caused. But I could’ve swore I’ve also heard the line that protests and political statements aren’t supposed to be for your convenience pretty often as well.
I’m pretty sure if a conservative athlete said that players protesting police brutality were misinformed or uneducated on the topic, or if the timing was bad in that it was costing them and the NFL money and sponsors, people would lose their **** and as they should. I get it. That issue hits close to home and is much more visible, but the China stuff, while far away is real as well.
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Yeah but it would be betterIf Bron says "No comment" or "This has a lot of layers to it" he would still get dragged.
He'd have to deal with a day of the **** like everyone else who said the same empty bs. He did the exact opposite though and took a direct stance contradicting Morey. Who advised him to do that nonsense? 
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It's even more startling coming from the NBA considering the fact that they have a monopoly on top tier basketball. IMO, the Chinese fans want the NBA more than the NBA wants China. While China is the largest market on the planet, the concentration of talent in the NBA is unmatched anywhere else on the planet, and it should normally give the league enough pull to tell the Chinese government to chill out. I'm curious as to why it isn't happening.
Because he and the rest of the league are engaging in the same behavior they accuse the MAGA folks of taking part in (hypocrisy and selfishness).
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This exact one,
He's specifically talking about Morey's lack of knowledge on how his tweet would be interpreted, that lack of knowledge has now led to the NBA caught in an international controversy over a simple tweet.
a tweet that Morey himself said was ill advised & a tweet that added nothing, no solutions, no criticism, just a bland as show of "support".
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Ding ding ding. All of this.
Imagine if Morey shot down the Rockets attempt to wear "I Can't Breathe" warm ups? Cause it's "bad business."
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Zach Lavine actually shoots worse from mid range than he does from three but carry on.shouts to Zach for being reasonable and not letting these calculus coaches deter him from doing things that make sense on the basket ball court
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Idk whyit didn't happen but I wish they had been more assertive and united in their stance against china. Now china is just going to get bolder in using its economic clout to further Its agenda.
You never want a dictatorship to get bolder in pushing its weight around.
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Lebron isn’t perfect. But he dropped the ball on this one. They weren’t going to rock with him either way. But his inconsistencies here gave the conservative Fox News crowd a bunch of ammo and talking points to use to try to delegitimize him when he does speak on things.
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At the end of the day, Lebron as the face of the league, probably felt he had to make a statement. I applaud James for that. As far as his choice of verbiage? He could have done better. Nonetheless, the real 'culprit' here is Morey. The fact that he hasn't truly made a statement to address the issue further goes to show his sentiments towards what he did, misinformed or not.
Like you said, this will be forgotten in a couple months.....when Lebron and his squad are dominating the Rockets and the rest of the league.
Those who are saying Lebron's legacy is tarnished will be the same people eating crow when Lebron becomes the first HOF elite superstar to lead 3 different teams to a title.
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I think Lebron and Morey are BOTH going back on their word because they both now understand the ramifications of what they said off the rip
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I feel like this has been a reoccurring theme in the media throughout the year and I ****ing love it
I love when both "sides" get caught in the same sea of hypocrisy and everyone is left with egg on their face looking stupid...and we see what this **** is REALLY all about = $$$.
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We also need to remember Lebron never went to college, so wth does he know about political sociology?
It would've been better for him to stay in his lane and let the politicians do all the talking. But I get it, he either felt responsible to speak up as the face of the league or he may have been urged by someone in the NBA to speak.
Lebron wasn't informed about Morey imo just as much as Morey was misinformed, if that is truly the case.
This fumble play is strictly on Morey and tbh, I think the main reason Lebron spoke up was to throw Morey under the bus.
Having said that....HOU you have a problem and it ain't Daryl.
It would've been better for him to stay in his lane and let the politicians do all the talking. But I get it, he either felt responsible to speak up as the face of the league or he may have been urged by someone in the NBA to speak.
Lebron wasn't informed about Morey imo just as much as Morey was misinformed, if that is truly the case.
This fumble play is strictly on Morey and tbh, I think the main reason Lebron spoke up was to throw Morey under the bus.
Having said that....HOU you have a problem and it ain't Daryl.
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I feel like this has been a reoccurring theme in the media throughout the year and I ****ing love it
I love when both "sides" get caught in the same sea of hypocrisy and everyone is left with egg on their face looking stupid...and we see what this **** is REALLY all about = $$$.
Exactly. Money talks and *******t walks.
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Probably a lot more than your average Joseph TBH.
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Understandable Lebron had no opinion because he, too, is inadequately informed about Chinese social politics. He rightfully stayed in his lane there.
But Lebron imho wanted to subtly throw Daryl under the bus in order to force the clown Morey to make a statement to clarify his thoughts on the issue, which has yet to happen.
Morey is a bigger clown than Lebron in this light
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Morey reach so far he even got Woj show cancelled.
The Future Of Adrian Wojnarowski's Tencent Show Is Up In The Air After He "Liked" Daryl Morey's Hong Kong Tweet [Update]
Now that last week’s roiling spat between the Chinese government and the NBA has mostly cooled, the global-sports-industrial complex is back to business as usual. Pre-season NBA games were held in China on Thursday and Saturday and everything went off relatively smoothly (with only a few minor...
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"oh wow, the guy with the story about the people that comes out later next weekWhy yall *****s talking in riddles on a message board? Spit that **** out
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My son Zach needs to limit his turnovers. He’s doing everything else right on the offensive side of the floor
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