>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.

^^^^^^^^^^ True