ESPN investigation finds coaches at
NBA China academies complained of
player abuse, lack of schooling
ESPN,
by
Steve Fainaru
&
Mark Fainaru-wada
Original Article
Posted By: DaddyO,
7/30/2020 6:19:09 AM
Long before an October tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters spotlighted the NBA's complicated relationship with China, the league faced complaints from its own employees over human rights concerns inside an NBA youth-development program in that country, an ESPN investigation has found. American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling (Snip) The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/30/2020 6:37:28 AM (No. 494382)
What the OP wrote.
Professional athletes are among the most politically clueless babes-in-the-woods there are. Most are children dwelling in adult bodies. Their conformity to current liberal/left fads is shameful.
As a class, most do not have class. Their infantile behaviors are published for all to see in the gossip rags; both nationally and internationally.
The thugs in the NBA, NFL, and now the MBL, have no concept nor understanding of American history, therefore they have zero patriotism.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
philsner 7/30/2020 8:04:29 AM (No. 494429)
Whoah! ESPN discovered something everyone else already knew! What was your first clue that communists aren't honest?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/30/2020 8:31:39 AM (No. 494454)
Ruh-Roh! What's King James going to do now? After all, his benefactors are not only abusing the Uighurs, but participants in Chinese NBA training academies as well. The solution Xi and company will pass on a few more millions of $$$ to the NBA, and all will be well.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/30/2020 8:36:25 AM (No. 494462)
Mark Cuban said he would not have reprimanded the NBA exec who expressed support for Hong Kong. And when SenatorTed Cruz challenged him to renounce China. Cuban said, he does not get involved in the internal policies of other countries In the above comments, Cuban said nothing. He is a gasbag.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/30/2020 8:38:22 AM (No. 494465)
...ha ha ha ....thought I just saw an article that had the words "NBA"...and " concern for lack of schooling" in it...!!!..ha ha ha ... since when is The Onion posted on this site ???
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/30/2020 8:44:38 AM (No. 494474)
Please excuse typos. Hit submit by accident. Dominant arm in a sling.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/30/2020 9:00:13 AM (No. 494504)
Darn it. I thought espn had gone out of business.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GO3 7/30/2020 9:16:39 AM (No. 494520)
Send Coach Pop over there. He’ll get it straightened out, and then he can stay.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 7/30/2020 9:21:52 AM (No. 494527)
You won't hear a peep from all the geniuses in the NBA or anywhere else for that matter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/30/2020 9:41:44 AM (No. 494550)
What irony. LeBron James, a wealthy, talented black athlete, who advocates for BLM, is making himself rich by playing in a sports league that is funded by Communist China, a country that practices racism and oppression as its daily modus operandi. Is there a pic of LeBron wearing a communist cap? There should be.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 7/30/2020 9:50:29 AM (No. 494563)
The treatment of these players by the Chinese is a direct result of the general attitude of the Xi government. Xi is a world-class bad guy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/30/2020 10:00:55 AM (No. 494577)
There are merely the methods used by Chinese sports authorities to develop world class athletes. Recall their Olympics success in gymnastics and diving...and go check out their training and ethics. Very simply, whatever it takes, even if a few pre-pubesecent girls are left in the wake.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/30/2020 10:39:47 AM (No. 494620)
It's China, a 3rd world country with a thin veneer of shiny 1st world tech, Apple sweats shops, and nuclear weapons. I mean, seriously, what did you NBA and ESPN numb skulls expect? Country people still live in houses with dirt floors and their ox and chickens poop in the living room.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 7/30/2020 11:12:01 AM (No. 494688)
Who knew the NBA was running camps in China???
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/30/2020 11:43:11 AM (No. 494733)
China runs their gymnastics academies the same way, long hours of practice and little else. Russia also recruits Olympic athletes and their training takes precedence over life. If you have talent, you WILL perform.
To be fair, coaches in the US have abused figure skaters and gymnastics children the same way for years. The parents accept it as the price of stardom.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GO3 7/30/2020 3:10:25 PM (No. 494926)
Remember what would happen if an Iraq national soccer team player didn't perform? Saddam would hand him his head - literally.
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