This NBA farce is very much like baseball in Japan 147 years ago

The ten commandments of the CIA against China (excerpt):

We must do everything possible to do a good job in communication, including films, books, television, radio waves… And new religious communication. As long as they yearn for our way of clothing, food, housing, transportation, entertainment and education, they are half the success.

We must draw the attention of their youth away from the tradition of taking the government as the center. Let their minds focus on: sports performances, pornographic books, pleasure, games, criminal films, so as to have religious superstition.

Two days ago, I wrote an article about rocket general manager Morey.

Unexpectedly, I just finished writing on my front foot and Xiao Hua, President of NBA on my back foot, came out to speak.

There have been a lot of analysis on the Internet these days. A little partner in the background shared such an inference with me.

I feel a little surprised and send it out for everyone to see — —

Of course, this statement has no sufficient basis. But it raises the question:

On the surface, it seems that a tweet from Morey triggered a series of black swan events, but is there a premeditation behind all this?

What I didn’t expect was that although this netizen’s post was purely inferential, the development after this incident was unfortunately in his words.

First, NBA President Xiao Hua publicly supported Morey in an interview.

“I read some media hints that we don’t support Morey, but in fact we do.”

“We have great influence in China, and we also have great influence in Hong Kong.”

With an almost arrogant attitude, he expressed that this is our “freedom of speech” in the United States and this is Morey’s “freedom of speech”.

The subtext is, “I just support Morey. What can you Chinese fans do to me? It’s not my NBA.”.

This is obviously a further attitude.

Then, CCTV sports issued a statement, “suspend the current broadcasting arrangement of NBA preseason (China game) and immediately investigate all cooperation and exchanges involving NBA”.

Then, Tencent sports, which has the exclusive digital media broadcasting right of NBA for five years, also announced that it would suspend the broadcasting arrangement of NBA events.

There are various signs that the boycott is beginning, both officially and privately.

As a result, as soon as CCTV sports announced the suspension of broadcasting, a reporter asked questions at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

“China’s CCTV has now decided to cancel the broadcasting of NBA programs. Is China using its influence to hinder freedom of speech?”

Look, in less than a few hours, a hat that “hinders freedom of speech” has been buttoned.

Only four minutes after CCTV sports issued a ban statement, NBA President Xiao Hua spoke again.

“ONe of the NBA’s enduring strengths is our diversity — views, backgrounds, races and religions.”

“People around the world, including from the United States and China, have different views on different issues, and it is not the responsibility of the NBA to adjudicate these differences. However, the NBA will not put itself in a position to supervise what players, employees and team owners say or don’t say on these issues, and we can’t do that at all.”

You can’t do that at all.

The question is, what does the NBA do about other people’s “inappropriate remarks”?

You did that when clippers boss Sterling made inappropriate remarks about blacks. Fined $2.5 million, suspended him for life, and prompted him to sell the Clippers.

You did that when the Hawks general manager Ferri made inappropriate remarks about blacks. Ferri was suspended indefinitely and then dismissed by the Hawks.

You did that when warriors player Durant made inappropriate remarks about India. Durant publicly apologized on social media for his remarks that “India is at least 20 years behind”, otherwise he could face a fine of more than $15 million and a 20 game ban.