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The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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How? They get seized at worst, you get a reship. Nobody cares about it as long as you aren't getting 50+ for resale.

>It is illegal to purchase counterfeit goods. Bringing them into the United States may result in civil or criminal penalties. https://www.cbp.gov/FakeGoodsRealDangers

Realistically though, CBP isn't going to come after you if you're buying a few hundred bucks of apparel for personal use.

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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It seems really random that the Chinese are so into NBA. What next, Greeks being really into American gangsta rap music?

Is it random they're into basketball or that they're into a foreign league? People follow lots of foreign soccer leagues, this is the same thing. Basketball is a quite popular sport internationally, unlike the 2 other big American inventions: baseball and football. Only a handful of countries outside the US have professional baseball leagues[1]. And other than Canada I don't know any country that has a professional f…

Rugby kinda fills the football hole and cricket is a good baseball replacement.

Korea has baseball leagues.

Mexico has football, Japan, Brazil, China and Poland.

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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>It is illegal to purchase counterfeit goods. Bringing them into the United States may result in civil or criminal penalties. https://www.cbp.gov/FakeGoodsRealDangers

So you never did anything illegal in your life? Sounds more like you want to scare people from ordering rather than speaking the truth.

I was just pointing out what OP suggested is illegal. Not sure why you need to question my personal choices in life and make up some malicious intent for doing that.

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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This shouldn't be surprising to people. The NBA has a bigger fanbase in China than in the USA. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/china-s-5...

The Houston backlash is just starting to fade. NBA is trying to avoid a repeat of this:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/business/houston-rockets-nba-...

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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This shouldn't be surprising to people. The NBA has a bigger fanbase in China than in the USA. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/china-s-5...

It seems really random that the Chinese are so into NBA. What next, Greeks being really into American gangsta rap music?

It's spycraft, a way for US culture and influence to penetrate China. It's deliberate.

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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>It is illegal to purchase counterfeit goods. Bringing them into the United States may result in civil or criminal penalties. https://www.cbp.gov/FakeGoodsRealDangers

Realistically though, CBP isn't going to come after you if you're buying a few hundred bucks of apparel for personal use.

You can find yourself on a CBP list if you import counterfeit goods.

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...

Re: The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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What is their stance on other political messaging or activism - for instance putting BLM on jerseys or kneeling? EDIT: comments suggest that the NBA does allow some political message like BLM. It seems like the NBA is now a political organization that is picking sides. Given BLM’s leadership are open, self admitted “trained Marxists” ( https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/09/say-you-want-a-marxi... ) and those suppor…

The difference is that supporting BLM earns them more money. Supporting Hong Kong loses them money. Don't make the mistake of assuming anyone with the power to make these types of decisions gives a single shit about the humanitarian aspect of any of these things.
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