Wonder if they’ll fire these two hosts as well....I mean, gotta stay consistent, right?

If The Athletic wants a less-obvious way to prevent people from commenting they should just switch to Kinja.

Hell, give ‘em mecha parts and missiles. You know they’d be down for it.

Maybe a bit off topic, but one group I kinda feel sorry for right now?

Oh, absolutely.  45 drools at the idea of lining up his naysayers against a wall.  A very nice, beautiful wall.

That’s it, time to rearm Japan. 

I agree with you (and Scocca) and I think it’s important to continue hammering the point that the NBA absolutely can and should pull out of China. But I also think it’s instructive to understand why it likely won’t: Because Silver, for all that he poses himself as the benign neoliberal CEO of the league, is actually…

Trump’s too busy trying to have the Whistleblower assassinated... ironically, something China would also do.

Completely apart from the moral principles of the situation, I really think Silver needs to double down and tell the Chinese to go fuck themselves. The NBA is obviously the best professional basketball league in the world, and by an enormous margin. Silver has real leverage because he has a monopoly on the product…

...we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech.

Spineless stooge.

Tell my wife I said...Hello

We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech.

We affirm our commitment to being noncommital.

100% laser-focused on trying to be ambiguous

We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression.

We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech.

We have seen how basketball can be an important form of people-to-people exchange that deepens ties between the United States and China.

Maybe he should have disguised it as a United States Treasury bond.

“Maybe I can find a nice compromise with the Chinese government.”

An intelligent person actually thought this.