Everybody has priorities on what they choose to care about and where they choose to put their focus so it doesn't bother me in the least that he's not out there waving the flag for HK independence. It's perfectly reasonable (in fact, mature) to be outspoken on a particular topic but reserve comment or judgment on a similar but different topic until you've truly versed yourself in the new topic.


That's all besides the point really... the point LeBron was trying to make (poorly) is Morey put the league, a couple teams in China at the time and many of it's most popular players at risk on some ill-conceived whim. Morey misconstrued how sensitive China was to the topic and how invested the league and many players are in the Chinese market.

it's also funny looking at Republicans trying to call the league and LeBron hypocrites for conducting the same kind of economic diplomacy that the US government endorses and many US companies actively participate in. The justification for these companies taking Chinese money and playing by Chinese rules is that the economic activity exposes Chinese citizens to more free-market ideals and, hopefully, the more democratic political concepts that support them.

Singling out the NBA just makes all American businesses in China (and the American govenrment)look bad because all of them are cashing checks while looking the other way.