ESPN: NBA exposed for concentration camps involvement

[Webb7 438]

so the NBA sold out to China for this? 

[Borisapillar 10,128]

This is why I don't f**k with sports.

[BillieGOAT 5,272]

Ok this thread title is ???? misleading

but wow this is so sad if true. 

[Webb7 438]

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, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the complaints.

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.

American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.

A former league employee compared the atmosphere when he worked in Xinjiang to "World War II Germany."

NBA officials asked current and former employees not to speak with ESPN for this story. In an email to one former coach, a public relations official added: "Please don't mention that you have been advised by the NBA not to respond."

At least two coaches left their positions in response to what they believed was mistreatment of young players.

One former coach described watching a Chinese coach fire a ball into a young player's face at point-blank range and then "kick him in the gut."

In Xinjiang, players lived in cramped dormitories; the rooms were meant for two people, but a former coach said bunk beds were used to put as many as eight to 10 athletes in a room.

NBA coaches and officials became concerned that although education had been announced as a pillar of the academy program, the sports bureaus did not provide formal schooling.

In recent years, the Chinese government has escalated its use of high-tech surveillance, restricted freedom of movement and erected mass internment facilities, which the government describes as vocational training centers and critics describe as concentration camps holding ethnic minorities, particularly Uighur Muslims. The government says the policy is necessary to combat terrorism.

[NORMANDIE 1,586]

WHAT 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

So Lebron James and all the other NBA frauds who happily condemn their own country but turn a blind eye to literal genocide, all because they’re getting paid tens of millions by the Chinese state?

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Yiiikes

[Werk 13,166]

1 hour ago, BillieGOAT said:

Ok this thread title is ???? misleading

but wow this is so sad if true. 

I'm confused now so what is exactly happening like the coaches are being sent to XInjiang?

[BillieGOAT 5,272]

1 hour ago, Werk said:

I'm confused now so what is exactly happening like the coaches are being sent to XInjiang?

It sounds like the NBA is sponsoring basketball camps in China & the camps are mistreating kids

[Bt1 5,213]

What a title. 

I think you can make an article about any chinese sport school and find similar problems. Dont want to generalise, but I think that psyshical correction is not unusual in chinese culture. 

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4 hours ago, Lord Temptation said:

So Lebron James and all the other NBA frauds who happily condemn their own country but turn a blind eye to literal genocide, all because they’re getting paid tens of millions by the Chinese state?

There is reasons why none of them speaks about Hong Kong when it happened last year.

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4 hours ago, Lord Temptation said:

So Lebron James and all the other NBA frauds who happily condemn their own country but turn a blind eye to literal genocide, all because they’re getting paid tens of millions by the Chinese state?

Was there any mention of Lebron? Did I miss something?

[MonsterofFame 1,797]

Sadly, we have reached the point where the Chinese government has reached Nazi Germany levels of terribleness. Not a joke, not exaggerating, but literally. It's frightening.

Concentration camps, mass slave labor, massive coverups (oh hello, COVID-19!) and who knows what else.

China is the sole reason I am considering voting for Trump this year. I can't believe Biden recently said "I wouldn't worry about China" and brushed it off as a non-issue.