I applaud Morey for speaking up in support of the demonstrators in Hong Kong. The NBA has gotten downright embarrassing. They let their coaches (Popovich and Kerr) say despicable things about the U.S. president, but they get all upset about a GM tweeting in favor of democracy in another country. Really?? Are you kidding me?
I don't know about doubling the stats put up by Kanter but he's going to more than triple the stats put up by Leonard.
I would encourage everyone to educate themselves on China as much as you can. With their emergence, this won't be the last issue in regards to China. I would encourage talking to a mainlander, someone from Taiwan, and someone from Hong Kong - of course be tactful and just listen (keep your opinion out of the conversation if you want to maintain the relationship...just my suggestion). You will learn a lot and the views will all be vastly different.
Clicking through different sports talk shows on the radio today and one was saying that Lebron made his statement because he's worried about his Space Jam 2 movie not being cleared to be released in China. That makes sense. I wonder since Lillard is in the movie if he is going to get drawn into this drama? I can see Lillard speaking his mind and not putting up with Lebron's BS. I wonder just how big Lillard's role in the movie is? If he does say something Lebron doesn't like I wonder if his role is small enough that he can be edited out?
I was surprised Lebron said anything, the reports were the players were upset they were put in a bad position. So why he thought talking would make their position better I have no idea... My guess is Dame isnt going to say much. I know I said Id bow out of this but its so fascinating to watch this unfold.
I had some computer science classes with a couple mainland Chinese students at Portland State about 20 years ago. They refused to talk about their country's politics. I got the feeling that the Chinese had spies making sure that their students studying in the United States toed the line.