I don’t want to get into a feud with Cognac McCarthy, but I believe he isn’t educated on the situation at hand. And so many people could have been harmed not only financially, physically, emotionally, spiritually. So just be careful what we post and say and we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but…

That pass was blinder than a Hong Kong protestor shot in the eyes by the Chinese government.

Yeah, your line of reasoning is bullshit pretty much any time it’s trotted out. Most of the world’s successful political revolutions were sparked by resistance by people who could never have reasonably expected to accomplish anything themselves. This applies to more that political protest, in fact; if you reject…

As a fellow Sacramentan and appreciator of small markets & high taxes (ugh), I have to weigh in diametrically opposed to you as a show that we are not all so narrow-minded:

Then China will say “fuck you” and block the NBA. It can’t go any other way if he starts down that path.

Definitely. While he positions his opposition Morey’s tweet on the basis of its harm to the financials of Joe Minimum Contract, what he and CP3 did in the last CBA served only the interests of the 30-something superstar class.

And this is way before we get into any discussions about the lack of intersectionality in his…

Looking at LeBron’s career, is this CYA, have-it-both-ways pragmatism all that surprising?

When building his Heat, 2nd Cleveland, and Lakers teams, he always dictated how the team would be built and which Old Guy/James Jones he wanted on the team. But the minute the team he had constructed wobbled, he was out,…

Yeah, Ray Ratto is to journalism what LeBron James is to basketball... ok, buddy.

when the NBA economy suffers from a complete fall out from this

I think you may be missing the point, just a bit? The staff of this site have made our stance with respect to the management of this company abundantly, conspicuously clear. We’ve practically shouted it from the rooftop. That we happened to articulate our criticisms before the shuttering of Splinter doesn’t seem like…

Just because it costs someone a buck isn’t a good excuse for not doing what’s right. 

It’s also likely he’s trying to protect his personal investments in China, which could well be considerable but largely shielded from public view.

Except the entire argument that this could hurt the pocketbooks of any NBA player is based on the idea that there is a limited amount of money for the players, which is ONLY true because of arbitrary restrictions on compensation. I guarantee that if you took China’s money away from the NBA, the league would have zero…

At what point does it stop being self-righteousness and become true righteousness then? You could argue that virtually any protest is self-righteous but if the cause is just what does it matter? Shall the status-quo never be disrupted because the once and future Messiah has not arrived yet? The goal posts will always…

“If you are using a smart phone to check your email or if you watched the Lebrun press conference on a tablet or smart tv you are just as guilty as they are of turning a blind eye for the sake of your own convenience and profit.”

This is such a tortuous pile of nonsense, false dichotomy BS. 

“You, yes, YOU, are EXACTLY…

A good time to remember that Colin Kaepernick gave up his job and all the considerable perks that come with it to stand up against injustice, while LeBron James, whose legacy and bank account are both more secure, is unwilling to risk even a small fraction of future earnings to speak on one of the few world issues…

I’ll bite:

His company Alibaba could be shut down in minutes if he came out in support of HK. He’s not stupid. Morally bankrupt, but not stupid.

That complicates it if you think money is more important than not sending people to concentration camps.