In a Thursday article, ESPN detailed the deep ties that the Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has to the Chinese communist government and how those relationships “personify” the “compromise” of the NBA’s hypocritical relationship with China, via Breitbart News:
“Tsai personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which brings in billions of dollars but requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and look past the kind of social justice issues it is fighting at home.”
According to ESPN, Tsai even thinks China’s brutal crackdowns have been a good thing because: “He believes China’s restrictions on personal freedoms have paved the way for economic development that has improved the lives of millions of its citizens.”
Insiders even insisted that Tsai stretched his influence inside the NBA to get the former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey fired for his 2019 tweet supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
