You’re clearly doing the Lord’s work. From your lips to LeBron’s ears.

“I didn’t know NFL teams had homecoming games,” he said. “I thought that was a high school thing.” 

Fans might take the game more seriously if it weren’t being called Snyder-Man: Homecoming

FIRE BRUCE ALLEN

If you're mad at LeBron, I want to see you be similarly mad at Bob Iger, Tim Cook, and every American politician who is using the NBA and its black players as a shield right now.

Do you still receive an automatic 4.0 for the semester if your roommate gets arrested for a felony?

You mean things that occurred in the US, a Representative Democracy in which the will of the people is reflected in the politics (more or less). Versus things occurring in an authoritarian communist state? I may be naive, but I think effecting change in one is a little easier than the other.

[Insert the Rock clapping GIF here]

That’s an oversimplication.

As if capitalism hasn’t forced every single person commenting here into daily compromises. Amazon treats their workers like shit, everyone knows it, but they advertise all over these sites and everyone keeps ordering more shit they don’t need. Why aren’t we bagging on Shep and the Kinja Deals crew here? Or on the…

EXACTLY.......he was wrong on this son now he doesnt have the support for the things he is active in about America?!?!?! Like WTF

I cut Deadspin some slack, because this is still a sports site, but it’s weird that we’re all focusing on the NBA when as others have said, damn near every other industry is over there as well, and has been for years. And China being awful isn’t exactly a new development. And I can’t speak for you, but in the last…

Of course, no debate about that. But let’s be honest, you, me and everyone else out here probably have a million products in our homes that are ‘made in China’, mainly because they’re cheap. Are we so different?

I agree with you TheBetBot. I was looking at it from that perspective as well. My comment is directed to Ray Ratto. I understand what you typed Ray, I just think it does not fit this. I think you are looking at this from the wrong view. Yes, I believe LeBron made a choice, but it was not in favor of China. It was not…

He’s a wildly successful black man with very few actual public missteps, and none of them have been anything that actually matter. (Changing jobs publicly at age 26 is not a thing that should make people that irrational.) White shitheads everywhere have looked for every chance to jump on this guy and now they’ve found…

It’s rich that Deadspin is all-in on the LeBron James pile-on, but Gizmodo will continue to write non-introspective pieces about Disney+ and the continued Marvel Universe and so on. This is so dumb, and the internet taking a victory lap on LeBron James while doing nothing about their own Chinese engagement is the…

I don’t fundamentally disagree with you but I do feel it’s a slightly different situation when the league insists on linking player salaries to leaguewide revenues. LeBron would probably love it if there wasn’t a salary cap that made the NBA’s revenues in China directly affect what the players could make.

I had to throw a guy out of a bar today because he called LeBron James an uncle tom. I’m black, he’s white, and we literally weren’t even talking to him. And this is in San Francisco.

But they have changed in reaction to international response. They used their state mouthpiece news paper to rollback propaganda against the NBA because the reaction of the Chinese people, in their words, “Made China look petulant on the international stage.” I’ve been in China for five years, it’s the first time I’ve…

People get past the fire wall all the time. The absence of Lebron in China would be a big fucking deal.
This is a country where, in the 90s, Michael Jordan was named the 2nd most popular person in the history of the world, only after Communist hero, Zhou Enlai.
Maybe China doesn’t change its behavior, but a crackdown on…