Posted on 10/09/2019 6:40:51 AM PDT by C19fan
All of the NBA's official Chinese partners have suspended ties with the league as it grapples with the fallout from a team manager's controversial tweet about Hong Kong.
NBA China lists 11 wholly-owned Chinese companies as its official partners in the country on its website, all of which now say they have halted business with the league, according to a review by CNN Business of company statements and social media posts. CTrip (CTRP), China's biggest online travel website, said Tuesday that it "dropped all NBA-related tickets and travel products" from its platform. Mengniu Dairy, one of the country's top milk producers, vowed to suspend "all commercial cooperation with the NBA."
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Wearing a professional sports team logo takes 20 points off your IQ.
Sorry, but these business connections with China should not be bought at the price of eliminating free speech of Americans.
They have to; they have to report to PLA intel officers.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of thugs.
Hey NBA - where’s the sacred diversity????
That is what is hilarious about this. It is okay to kneel to point out how "oppressive" the USA and/or Trump is, but better not utter a peep about the repressive Chi-coms.
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