Posted on 07/30/2020 2:51:18 PM PDT by Zenyatta
During a lengthy interview with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Thursday, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer not once asked Silver about an explosive new investigative report by ESPN detailing frequent instances of abuse and lack of education in NBA academies in China.
The ESPN report, published roughly two hours before Blitzer’s interview with Silver, painted a grim picture of human rights abuses against young players where players would often be mistreated and American coaches harassed and monitored by Chinese authorities.
A former NBA employee who worked in an NBA academy in the Chinese province of Xinjiang compared the situation there to that of “World War II Germany.”
One former league employee said the camp was like “a sweat camp for athletes” while one former coach told ESPN they were “basically working for the Chinese government.”
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I hope nobody confused Wolf Blitzer with a real journalist.
What did anyone expect? It’s Wolf Blitzer, CNN.
Not one bit surprising, at all.
Who expected something different?
Did Adam Silver emerge from the Munsters casting closet?
He looks like the original pencil neck.
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