ESPN detailed the deep ties that billionaire Brooklyn Nets Owner Joe Tsai has to the authoritarian Chinese government and how those relationships “personify” the “compromise” of the NBA’s hypocritical relationship with China.
In a Thursday article,
The NBA owner has also specifically defended China’s brutal crackdowns on political dissent, including the country’s destruction of free speech in Hong Kong, ESPN says in its long, in-depth piece.According to ESPN, Tsai even thinks China’s brutal crackdowns have been a good thing because “He believes China’s restrictions on personal freedoms have paved the way for economic development that has improved the lives of millions of its citizens.
Insiders even insisted that Tsai stretched his influence inside the NBA to get now-former Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey fired for his 2019 tweet supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Tsai and the NBA have denied those charges. “Last I checked, that’s a pretty abysmal thing to be associated with,” said Matt Turpin, the former China director for the National Security Council. “In today’s NBA, I guess it’s not a problem.”
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