By Stu Woo Oct. 8, 2019 2:32 pm ET Last month, the National Basketball Association approved the sale of the Brooklyn Nets to the Taiwan-born, American-educated businessman Joe Tsai. Now, just a few weeks later, he is in Shanghai scrambling to ensure the Nets’ first high-profile game in his tenure gets played.
Few know the Chinese market better than Mr. Tsai, who co-founded online retailer Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , China’s most valuable company. Yet even he couldn’t say on Tuesday how the matter will be resolved—or whether the preseason games would be played as scheduled.More on Rockets GM Daryl Morey Mr. Tsai said he is trying to play the role of peacemaker in the dispute.
One of his first efforts was to post an open letter on Facebook explaining why Mr. Morey’s posts offended so many Chinese people. He intended it to be a brief history lesson about how foreign powers such as Britain and Japan have abused China over the past centuries. Some basketball fans responded to his post, saying he supported an authoritarian government. Some took issue with his characterization of the Hong Kong protesters as “separatists,” a label also used by China’s state-controlled media, which have depicted the activists as violent radicals. The movement’s leaders have said they aren’t separatists.
Problem is to call rioting Hongkong peaceful, it is violent destructive, for sports teams to sanction violence is
Forget this owner, remember when NBA cancelled an All Star Event in Charlotte because of non gender bathrooms, but now turn their back on freedom of speech and standing for democracy by Hong Kong citizens, No ones confused here!
Why take issue with Tsai? It’s free speech right? Shouldn’t have double standards.
The nba is shooting itself in the foot letting this guy spew such pablum
What do you call people in a state fighting for independence from a country?
Tsai's speech is neutral enough. HK extreme protesters beat passengers who speak in Mandarin, which is totally racist. That's why the move is disliked, and labelled separatists in mainland China.
All about money, and selling out freedom to a communist brutal dictatorship govt. This is the money hungry progressive big business globalist, that sold out the middle class and American's manufacturing
Tsai s been licking ass of CCP. No surprise really. After all, where his monies (inclding those to purchase Net) come from?
FUCKKKCHINA.. standforfreedom
Free speech doesn't mean free from consequences. You are free to make racist speech and you gets fired. Political correctnesses are different in different places.
Autonomy is what Hong Kong protesters ask for, ok? StandwithHongKong
Looks like the Jocks and the Gamers have a common enemy: The Chinese Police State HongKongProtest
这些球迷 视障吗？还是失聪？或是美国的fake news，as president Trump pointed out，stolen the facts happening in Hong Kong?
Any form of supporting the separatists of China can irritate Chinese people. You irritates allmost Chinese people and then try to frame China government.
Chinese people have no problems with freedom of speech, but when people are attacked and beaten in HK just because they speak mandarin. What does supporting HK mean to people who speak mandarin? Supporting violence to people who speak mandarin?
I have one question for Joe Tsai. If Communist China is so great why did his parents fled to Taiwan?
What happen to freedom of speech to Joe? He as a human cannot have it per the US norms. Right?
Take issue just because Americans only know the states based by united, your vison is not enough to make you understand what is NATION.
Yup, and Joe is right! joetsai1999 HongKongProtest
Free speech I love 911
If people set fire to the subway, attack the police, rob Banks, beat up citizens, destroy public facilities, please support their freedom. Because this is Hong Kong, what is going on, oh, your media won't report it?
NBA thought they avoided political traps, like the NFL regarding kneeling. HongKongProtests puts NBA squarely in a fight PR cannot fix. Championships this summer in China proved potential money. But HK folks will not stop fighting for freedom of expression.
Damn morley, he screwed everything up. What he said is stupid. China is very sensitive about territorial integrity. But in the United States to say something racist, or to say something terrorist, is not acceptable, so the Chinese feel like you hear someone praising 9/11.
But aren’t they?
Anyone against free speech should move to China
Support free speech!!! China doesn’t own us !!! Yet
HIS Solution Option one 'Ask NBA, Congressman and senator, even trump to have a formal apology to CHinazi' or Option TWO, Flush his investment to toilet, openly condemn his employee, then 'Retire', his stock donate to Chinazi.
Why can't he have the freedom of speech?
Who do you think he is controlled by?
The best thing this entire situation did was woke people up to just how much and how in the weirdest places China has pull in the United States simply because of a potential customer base. Greed.
What would you call guys beating up people on the street for speaking Mandarin, while leaving people speaking English alone?
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