All this explains why the NBA and the NBA’s owners refuse to criticize a country that imprisons Christians and other members of minority religions, brutally oppresses political opposition, arrests, jails, and enslaves its Uyghur minority population, and maintains the most oppressive and intrusive mass surveillance state in human history.
Meanwhile, they nearly daily call America racist, disparage our history and work to undermine our traditions and government.
Soccer and the others are barely a pimple on the hindquarters of the big four, at least in the USA and Canada.