“There’s no reason to make this political” seems to be almost exclusively said about topics that are inherently political.

Killed a bunch of people in the late 60's/early 70's. Like an early Jeffrey Dahmer.

I hope someone in the Boston media asks Enes Kanter what he thinks about all of this.

It would appear one of the morons fell off their barstool and stumbled in.

Except then you realize Ted Cruz immediately turned around and accepted big $$ from [awful lobbying group] asking him to [betray his constituents and the greater good of the country]. All before he angrily tweets at the Democrats for calling out the Grand Ol’ Party.

Hollywood has gone full-0n whore to the Chinese market in recent years, and they are reaping the financial bounty that comes from 1.4 billion consumers.

So Morey’s gonna get blacklisted after the Rockets can him. No way the NBA lets anyone else hire him after this. Enjoy retirement, Daryl.

Japan is a regional competitor to China. China may have interpreted their presence in Tokyo as an anti-Chinese move, especially after Morey’s tweet.

The surest sign that China is overtaking the United States as a superpower is how even quicker they are to act like aggrieved, authoritarian-supporting snowflakes.

Just saying “it’s a business” when someone/some corporation does something shitty doesn’t absolve the person/corporation.

What’s most jarring to me is how quickly they jump from “STOP BEING POLITICAL” to “OH MY DEAR CHINA DID THAT MEAN TWEET HURT YOU?” It’s so unbelievably transparent and hypocritical, and in a just world they’d get absolutely raked through the coals. But alas. Alas.

The “well, yeah, it’s a business” line of thinking is exactly the problem.

I am shocked, shocked that this collection of obscenely rich people don’t risk a bit of their wealth for the right thing compared to those other obscenely rich people I was just bemoaning!

Even Viola Desmond!

This is completely untrue. The NBA absolutely cares about Andrew Jackson and Ben Franklin and Chairman Mao and other people who appear on currency.

This makes me wish I watched the NBA so I could quit watching the NBA.

Good on you for noting ESPN’s complicity in all of this. But while I wouldn’t expect a nuanced take from Golic and Wingo, seeing other media personalities and journalists so conspicuously quiet on this issue (Bill Simmons; Sam Amick, Ramona Shelburne; Shams Charania, Zach Lowe... none of them has yet said anything…

Pop weighing in would be an interesting wrinkle here.

You barely get to live in the world at all—much less run a multibillion dollar business with global ties and partnerships of varying degrees—without there being a political undertone to most of your actions.