2019 NBA Off Season Thread: Board man gets paid. ITS APPLE TIME!

[tyven]

Haha good lord

[Krandor]

https://streamable.com/zjqs6

It's Happening

[Krandor]

Back on topic (?) - https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-e...lit-1838881032

tldr - ESPN sent out a memo expressly forbidding their employees from even mentioning Chinese/Hong Kong politics when covering the story about Chinese/Hong Kong politics

[Vaspinne]

Back on topic (?) - https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-e...lit-1838881032

tldr - ESPN sent out a memo expressly forbidding their employees from even mentioning Chinese/Hong Kong politics when covering the story about Chinese/Hong Kong politics

Welp, the boys on PTI didn't get the memo lol. That being said, they're not necessarily talking about China in detail, but moreso how the NBA should respond and if/how they're being hypocrites

[archibaldcrane]

The point is to not discuss the Hong Kong situation at all. That's the Chinese sticking point.

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[archibaldcrane]

I didn’t realize Ton Scocca was at Slate. Or maybe I did. Idk. Just nice to see the God’s name on something again.

I think he just freelances there? He's still running Hmm... Daily too (the worst named website ever)

He rules though

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[Andalusian girls]

Back on topic (?) - https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-e...lit-1838881032

tldr - ESPN sent out a memo expressly forbidding their employees from even mentioning Chinese/Hong Kong politics when covering the story about Chinese/Hong Kong politics

Max Kellerman looked like he was about to shit himself on air but dude straight up name dropped Tiananmen Square live on ESPN and said the US-China relationship was based off mutual interests, not mutual values, and he didn't know what kind of country America is if saying a repressive communist government is bad is now controversial.

ESPN itself has yet to upload the clip but third parties are throwing it up all over the internet

[archibaldcrane]

Just got to that point in the pod. He also called it the most fascinating story in a long time and said he might tackle it on the Tuesday pod once he's researched a bit more. That and his friendship with Morey gives me some optimism he's gonna go in on it

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The episode today is titled "Could China cancel the NBA?" so he's digging in, but I haven't listened, he could very well not say "Hong Kong" at all.

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[archibaldcrane]

Max Kellerman looked like he was about to shit himself on air but dude straight up name dropped Tiananmen Square live on ESPN and said the US-China relationship was based off mutual interests, not mutual values, and he didn't know what kind of country America is if saying a repressive communist government is bad is now controversial.

ESPN itself has yet to upload the clip but third parties are throwing it up all over the internet

Hell yes

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[vagus]

#mainlandmoney




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[Krandor]

I'm sure it'll get pulled, but here's the First Take clip from today.

[octopus]

he's the man, bravo

[archibaldcrane]

The episode today is titled "Could China cancel the NBA?" so he's digging in, but I haven't listened, he could very well not say "Hong Kong" at all.

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Apparently he's weak as shit on the pod but haven't listened to it yet

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[Moss]

Apparently he's weak as shit on the pod but haven't listened to it yet

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Well that's disappointing

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[archibaldcrane]

Well that's disappointing

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Clearly there's no Ringer-wide gag order though

https://www.theringer.com/platform/a...mpression=true



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[Xno Kappa]

I'm sure it'll get pulled, but here's the First Take clip from today.

SAS is a fucking tool.

[Dimmauk]

If someone tells a black man to shut up and dribble its "OMG HOW DARE YOU!"
But it's ok to tell Morey to "Shut up and just GM"

Got it.

[Krandor]

It's in the best financial interest of most American companies to look like they care about social issues because it leads to good press outside of normal sports media circles.

Look at WWE for example, Stephanie McMahon dropped this one a few years ago -

https://twitter.com/stephmcmahon/sta...591168?lang=en

But they have no problem accepting Saudi blood money to put on shows there every couple months.

I'm actually willing to give Adam Silver and the NBA some credit on this one tho. Even if it may just be a reaction to the bad press from their initial response, Silver looks like he's holding strong on accepting the consequences of not punishing Morey, which is more then we could probably say about most other businesses in this situation when China starts swinging their dick around

[Moss]

Funny enough the NBA is now in the unenviable position of alienating its domestic fans in its effort to placate the Chinese ones

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[Mertron]

im trying to make sure this is legit. not seeing anything that says it isn’t but my only source is twitter right now

reports are these two were kicked out of the sixers preseason game against a chinese team :in Philadelphia:



cross-posting but whateva