Good, there shouldn’t be money in sports.
Why would anybody play sports then?
Not that I agree with the original, but that's a bit like asking why would anybody play music or make art (activities that rarely involve money)? Because they enjoy it.
NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
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#12Good, there shouldn’t be money in sports.
Ah yes, the Soviet way. :P
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#13We really cannot allow China to remove freedoms of speech
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#14It's not much of a dilemma though, is it? Already-rich folks kowtowing to fascists for a quick buck is beyond pathetic.
US companies should stop targeting China for growth. If they don't steal your IP completely, they'll eventually freeze you out like they just did the NBA. It's happened to many companies and will eventually happen to you too. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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#15Well give them a handout as the US soybean farmers got for Chinese cutting imports due to trade war ... this is no different.
You either engage with China and turn a blind eye to their internal repression or totally decouple yourself from them ... can't have your cake and eat it.
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#17It's not much of a dilemma though, is it? Already-rich folks kowtowing to fascists for a quick buck is beyond pathetic. US companies should stop targeting China for growth. If they don't steal your IP completely, they'll eventually freeze you out like they just did the NBA. It's happened to many companies and will eventually happen to you too. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Also not new at all. Money talks, even if it means only saying the things the highest bidder allows you to say.
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#19That's the point. The scale of China's reaction is obviously not because of the tweet itself but because of the trade war. The message is that the US have a lot to lose if China starts to also effectively blacklist American companies like the US try to do to Chinese companies... Edit: Someone should explain why now on HN a comment like this one that simply tries to look beyond the obvious and to discuss current issue…
Well, we saw with the USSR that decades of Cold War couldn't be defused politically but Levis and Coca Cola went a long way towards bridging the divide. Now we have China which is basketball-mad but the problem is we can't use the carrot of the NBA to entice them towards us as long as the NBA is willing to trade their product under China's terms for a big enough paycheque. The NBA's attempt to paint themselves as a n…
The NBA is about basketball, not about something that is quickly turning into McCarthyism. Demanding that they should 'stand for something' is behaving exactly how China and Chinese companies are accused of behaving.
The concept of "enticing China towards the US" is also naive at best. China is not a small country that the US can turn into a satellite. It is a superpower with its own views and interests and however its political regime will evolve it will not be either aligned with or under the leadership of the US. The US government knows that and that is the problem they have with China.
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#20The NBA really needs to grow a spine on this one. They have nothing to lose but incremental profits and in the long run China will lose. It will just be one more reminder for the populace that their current government restricts them from luxuries the rest of the world gets to experience. And if that doesn't bother them, good riddance I guess, it's not like China is going to come up with their own basketball league that's going to overtake the NBA, ever.