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Adam Silver and the NBA Just Dug Their Own Chinese Grave

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I'll tell you how utterly clueless Adam Silver is about his internalized racism. Here is what he said on his way to Shanghai, to meet with former Houston Rocket star, Yao Ming, who is now the Chairman of the China Basketball Association (CBA),

I'm hoping together Yao and I can find an accommodation, but he is extremely hot at the moment and I understand it.

"Extremely hot at the moment"? No, Adam, you don't get it. There will be no "accommodation" with Yao Ming or China's 1.4 billion citizens.

Adam, you also said,

It is inevitable that people around the world - including from America and China - will have different viewpoints over different issues.

About the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a country? How can you be so stupid, Adam? Did you forget about the Civil War? Oh yeah, I almost forgot - you are just another arrogant, racist fool. Unfortunately for the NBA, your Western millennial racism is going to cost your cozy club of multimillionaires a boatload of money.

Keep digging deeper, Adam. It's a long way to hell.

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Sixteen years on the streets, living and working with the people of China: Jeff J. Brown is the author of 44 Days (2013) and Doctor Write Read's Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). In 2016 Punto Press released China (more...)
 

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