The NBA was trying to cave at first, but now the NBA is in a position where they can’t cave because it would kill them in the US.

The Athletic may be “independent” from advertiser pressure, but they aren’t independent from Investors. More importantly, The Athletic’s Venture Capitalist investors aren’t “independent” of Chinese Markets/Chinese Factories/Chinese Government Authorization in their other business dealings.

Another example of the Real Story behind all this: The Chinese Government using its muscle and money to shut everyone up. They are threatening everyone into silence. It is like how Newspapers through 1970s wouldn’t use the term “mafia” or report on the Mafia out of fear of what might happen to their business (or their…

It felt to me like she was personally disgusted by Stephen’s statement; acknowledging that his point was wrong, cowardly, and despicable. Not sure if she was pointing that out in general (that sometimes people have to speak out on difficult issues) or if she was pissed about him insinuating that no one should make…

“Morey should have known better than to walk down the street wearing that nice watch and showy clothes. It was terribly irresponsible of him to get mugged while doing absolutely nothing wrong.”

Thank you for this. Most of the media have been terrible on this, not just the NBA. Morey did not insult China or the Chinese. Every article should be clear that the issue is the Chinese government flexing their muscles to shut everyone up. It is insulting to suggest that disagreeing with the Chinese Government is a…

It isn’t naked capitalism, it is naked greed. There is nothing capitalist about a government forcing independent businesses in its country to break business relationships because a foreign employee of one of their partners disagrees with the government’s political choices. China isn’t capitalist it isn’t communist it…

He is also implying that the people in Hong Kong protesting ARE the British or British stooges and not native Chinese Hong Kong citizens. The Hong Kong protesters are people fighting for their OWN damn human rights and their own rights of self-determination, and Tsai is calling them tools of colonialist imperialist…

Todd Phillips made a fortune riding a particular trend in comedy movies, now that the trend is over, he is complaining about how unfair it is. It is like a person who paid his mortgage selling pet rocks complaining how life isn’t fair because Pet Rocks aren’t cool anymore. No, you were lucky enough to catch a trend at…

Because the 3rd quarter starts with a kickoff, which they receive. No team kicks off to start both 1st and 3rd quarter (except that one team that did it on accident)and no team should kick to start OT. My statement was dependent on a hypothetical “If”. Teams aren’t choosing to kickoff in the first, they are deferring…

You always receive in OT because of alternating possessions. The receiving team will average more possession opportunities than the kicking team and never have fewer. Imagine if the 3rd quarter didn’t start with a Kickoff, but continued from the 2nd like happens at the end of the first and the third. Would anyone EVER…

That ancient tradition that the Braves marketing department introduced in 1991 after copying it from FSU and that the Chiefs copied long after that. FSU at least has the VERY small fig leaf that the Seminole tribe of Florida approves of them in exchange for some scholarships. (The Tribe could never oppose anything FSU …

Fertitta would rather Morey sing “Fuck Tha Police” during the opening night performance of the Star Spangled Banner while holding Trump’s bloody severed mannequin head than have him say something to oppose the government of China. Every freedom lovin’ right-wing capitalist with business interests in China feels the…

The Braves are downright evil. You mention their White Flight to Cobb County, the stealing hundreds of millions from parks and services in a corrupt scam that by-passed voters, and their barely reformed Noc-A-Homa-ism, but you forget the contracts they pushed on Acuna and Albies. Because of the way MLB treats young…

You Guys, I think the Orlando Thunder look good enough to win the World League of American Football this year.

For a woman blessed with immense talent, likability, marketability and a basically great life, Delle Donne has the shittiest luck. Lyme disease, all the nasty little injuries, the timing; It is just amazing.

Taint cams now! We need a simultaneous shot of all eight competitors’ taints in the starting blocks, so we can see which taint twitches first in response to the starter’s pistol. How else can we tell who got the best start?

This is just insane. Basically we’ve gotten to the point that in VAR blaming that VAR is actually causing the mistakes it was meant to fix.

His odds of making exactly 3 points would increase, but his average points per FT would theoretically go down because FT% is higher on second and third shots. But in situations where a team is down 3 on a final possession, you are exactly right; getting fouled on a 3-point shot becomes far more valuable. In that…

Wagner argues that any rule change reducing FT percentage would reduce foul hunting by reducing how many points a player averages for drawing a foul. But the same article says that defenses wouldn’t foul more because even at 10% worse percentage, the FT is still a more efficient shot than a typical possession. NO. That…