blasting china for its handling of hong kong, and supporting the hong kong protests. china got mad at the nba, drop the nba from being shown in china for about a year, and the nba lost $200 million. so, there is a financial aspect to this to. that says, yeah, he is pretty much being blackballed, likely, from the nba. terrence, is there any hypocrisy here though? i mean, conservatives get angry about colin kaepernick taking a knee. but now, they are celebrating enes kanter freedom for being, you know, anti-human rights abuses in china, which we know exist. so, is there something happening here that we really need to be honest about? putting aside whether this guy actually has a future in the nba? republicans? hypocrites? i mean, is there gambling in vegas? i mean, there is no question whether there is hypocrisy here. the other thing you have to look at is, you mentioned the colin kaepernick take up situation. there was all of this screaming about him kneeling, and black
blackballed from the nba despite being a terrific player. he was 32 at the time. that was back in 1992. and, and it is only 29. so, there is a similarity there, that beyond just a china thing, when you start attacking, you know, the big dog of the nba, that could be problematic. i think, terrence, i think it was michael jordan who once said, i m not going to talk politics because even republicans by nike. terrence, thank you so much for being here. coming up, some personal news, as the kids say. i have a little announcement i d like to share on the other side of this break. stay tuned. ak stay tuned dove men+care. smoother, healthier skin with every shower. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life, and save in more ways than one.
lebron james, and the olympics for being soft on china. shame on the international olympics committee to, you know, organize these games, when there is a dictatorship at hand. so, i am calling on all these athletes not just athletes, you know all these governments, countries, who say, this is unacceptable. that argument has conservatives swooning, and he seems to be eating up the attention. sometimes literally. here he was yesterday at lunch, with the senate republicans quote, proud to be an america, and he tweeted. and, that is in addition to regular appearances on fox news, which is pushing the narrative that he is the victim of nba cancel culture, and they are pushing and really hard. but, is that the case? or, does the 29 year old make a more promising political activist in an nba center at this point in his career. and, does he really realize that his new admirers on the
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right probably don t share his love for black lives matter? let s turn now to veteran sports journalist, tara and more. he is the national sports columnist for forbes on, calm and the author of the upcoming book the real hank aaron. thanks for being here, terrence. a recent washington post opinion cole makes the argument that enes kanter freedom being released from the rocket was politically motivated. he said, the final straw might have been that television ad he produced with a republican from florida calling out the beijing olympics, which they called the genocide games, including nba sponsored nike. stand for freedom, defund the dictators for freedom. i want to point out that this was written by mark thiesen, the former bush writer, who literally wrote a book saying and defending the use of torture. but, this is the guy who says that enes kanter freedom has been canceled for pushing for human rights. is he right? yeah, you know, let s put this in a little bit of