The NBA figure who has drawn the most ire here is neither Morey nor the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver, but rather its most famous player, LeBron James. If you’re reading this, then by now you’re likely familiar: In early October, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image of words chanted by so many protesters: “Fight for Freedom.
We aren’t afraid of the police. One morning, they awoke early, and her grandmother prepared buns for the journey, and together they slipped out of their village undetected, until they reached the coast and a small boat. The letters in case they fail. The gas masks go on one at a time, protester by protester, around each head and over each mouth, tightened until secure. The politicians feel far away now, the conversations among NBA officials and coaches and players so much farther still.
Beijing has branded the protests as a separatist movement. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. CCTV pulled the plug on NBA games just over a year ago after Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, expressed sympathy with anti-government protests in Hong Kong by tweeting a picture with the words "Fight for freedom. Protesters supporting democracy there have noticed the backpedaling statements from NBA stars like LeBron James. Stand with Hong Kong.” Almost instantly, the tweet touched off an international firestorm, pitting the NBA against a country estimated to account for at least 10 percent of the league’s revenue. “You have to try this chicken.”, Amid the chaos, there has emerged a degree of connectedness and care for strangers that Hong Kongers have rarely experienced. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. “This is so against my human nature. But of course, China, when China was unhappy with Daryl Morey of the Houston Rockets for his tweet, they were able to impose pretty substantial financial penalties on the NBA by interrupting the NBA's business in China. Three days later, the bill was stalled, but police responded to a smaller protest with tear gas and rubber bullets. He just shared a poster.”, He cites other recent controversies, too. In Hong Kong, protesters have burned James’s jersey and worn masks of his face, just as they wear those of their hated politicians, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam. “Hong Kong people are strong. A few reporters run away from the chaos, and a few medics run toward it, and in between, I look up to see another man, perhaps 60, wiry and bald, stumbling down the alley. They erect their barricades and they light their fires and they move to the middle of the streets with their umbrellas, and they wait. “This is our last chance. “Only under an assumption that the other side cares.”, While so many march and cheer, others walk around the periphery of the protests, handing out water bottles and fast-food gift certificates to tired strangers. Before leaving the museum, she pauses and looks around her. “If you shout, you release your anger. But at times, there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you're not thinking about others and you're thinking about yourself. An August poll by The Independent showed that 39.5 percent of respondents believed the protesters had used “excessive force.” David Chu, a 40-something marketing executive in Hong Kong, says, “Everyone wants democracy, but not like this.” In casual conversations around town, I hear others call the protesters “cockroaches” or “entitled millennials” with no jobs. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to The Ringer's Jordan Ritter Conn. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. “It’s a very stressful city. Sometimes, though, they can feel hopeless. The protest is illegal. The NBA called Morey’s tweets “regrettable” and Morey later apologized for offending China. People are still very invested in basketball itself and have been pleased with some of what they've seen out of the NBA. Mainland Chinese fans reacted with anger to the tweet and NBA commissioner Adam Silver's defence of Morey's right to free speech. The Chinese government ranks among the world’s worst human rights offenders.
Now the NBA faces criticism from Hong Kong. Regardless of what he said, if one of the world’s most famous athletes is talking about Hong Kong, she says, “a lot of people are going to ask, ‘What’s going on? Wong takes me to the Hong Kong Museum of History, which tells the story of how Britain secured control of Hong Kong in 1841, as part of the First Opium War, and moves through more than a century of history, showing how, in the second half of the 19th century, Hong Kong grew from a small fishing town into a major international trade hub, eventually securing some measures of autonomy even while under British colonial rule. AFP-Yonhap. Activists handed out free T-shirts displaying support for the Hong Kong protests. Hong Kong is a city of 7 million, granted freedoms that don’t exist in the rest of a country of 1.4 billion. They throw bricks at police vans and break windows of pro-Beijing shops. His final campaign brought severe scrutiny after a tweet one year ago regarding Hong Kong protests that led to China suspending sponsorship deals with the NBA and pulling NBA game telecasts … Several fans were escorted out of NBA preseason games this week after holding up signs and voicing support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as the league grapples with the backlash over its statements in support of China. There is the sign holder, who asks to be called Leo, born in Malaysia but living in Hong Kong for the past 20 years, and his friend, whom I’ll call Joe, a born-and-raised Hong Konger.
Sunday night, a group of medics walk together several blocks from the chaos, clearly exhausted but still upbeat, and one stops to put a plate of food in my face and a pair of chopsticks in my hands. “We don’t ask what’s next,” says Joe. So why do they watch college football?”—he explains how the movement in Hong Kong began. But Lu said the resumption of broadcasts also shows Beijing's desire to normalise people-to-people exchanges in spite of the deterioration of official relations this year.
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The umbrellas to protect against police. “Our system is really hard to understand,” Leung says. In China, the league faced backlash for tolerating Morey’s comment. LEBRON JAMES: Yes.
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