Posted on 10/15/2019 2:00:49 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
NBA star LeBron James reportedly pressured the NBA to punish the Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey after he tweeted support for Hong Kong.
James argued that if something a NBA player had tweeted had cost the league money they would have been punished, and questioned why the same wasn’t happening to Morey, according to Dave McMenamin on ESPN. (RELATED: LeBron James: ‘I Have A Platform’ To Speak Out Against ‘Something That’s Unjust’)
“Nearly a week ago today, in a Shanghai hotel room, or Shanghai hotel ballroom, Adam Silver got up and addressed the players, and LeBron James is one of the players who got up and spoke and said, ‘Hey, what are we doing here? Daryl Morey made these statements,'” McMenamin recalled on air Tuesday. “You know damn well if a player made the same statements and caused such poor ramifications for the league, there would be some sort of league recourse.”
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“There would be repercussions the player has to pay. You know, potentially this tweet could cost the NBA hundreds of millions of dollars. That could come out of the players’ pockets, and so that’s the double standard that was being addressed in that meeting,” he continued. (RELATED: LeBron James Laments That NBA Could Be Harmed ‘Financially’ By Rockets GM’s Pro-Hong Kong Stance)
The comments by James were made during a players meeting on Oct. 9 before the Lakers vs. Nets game in Shanghai, according to a report published by The Athletic.
The ESPN interview aired after James went public with his comments on China. (RELATED: Sports World Silent Following LeBron James’ China Comments)
“We all talk about this freedom of speech — yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and only thinking about yourself,” James said during a press conference Monday. “I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand.”
Scott Adams pointed out today in his Periscope that Lee-Bron cost the NBA LOTS of money by opening his dumb yap about President Trump.
The only uneducated one is LeBron James.........
Attaboy, Joker Lebron....keep digging.
LeBtard weighs in...
Would that be like a slave arguing with his master about another master treating his slaves differently?
Uncle Tom Bron needs to tone it down. He forgot his 6th grade high school education does not make him better.
Read that from a tweet earlier today.
Will never do so again.
Whether you are FOR or AGAINST something I like, keep it to yourself when you are running a business.
You mix politics and business at your financial peril.
He is only outraged by slavery 150 yrs ago in America.
“I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand.”
And dat be, hey bro, you know you not thinking of da pocket book here. That red white and blue stuff is just for the Parades and such. Not in our world.
This is what happens when you push athletes to be social justice warriors. (And when your league gets compromised by ChiComs).
Morey was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He graduated from Highland High School in Medina, Ohio,[3] before receiving a bachelor’s degree in computer science with an emphasis on statistics from Northwestern University in 1996,[4] as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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LeBron
Would I be labeled as a “racist” if I said all this idiot knows in life is how to dribble and shoot basketballs?
but Le bola gets millions from China so he has to be a good little boy and defend them....
meanwhile, the cops are evil....
LeBron is the type who likes having Chinese slaves making shoes so that he can make a profit while putting Americans out of work.
You forgot his biggest skill. Peeing on an electric fence.
Perhap Lebron can ask the Chinese communists to kill Daryl Morey.
“You know, potentially this tweet could cost the NBA hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Old guy walks up to a young girl and says, “would you sleep with me for a million dollars?”
Young girl thinks for a minute and says, “sure.”
Then the old man says, “well how about for $20”.
The young girl replies in a huff, “hey, what kind of a girl do think I am.”
To which the old many replies, “we’ve already established that, now we’re just haggling about the price.”
We’ve pretty well established what the NBA is, and in this case we even have a pretty good idea of the price!
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