re: NBA teams planning for scenario in which salary cap could drop due to situation with China

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Daryl Morey is going to cost the league a lot of money.

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I keep seeing this take and it's not really a good one IMO.

Something like this was going to happen eventually. If it wasn't Morey's tweet now it was going to be some other incident in the relative near future.

Many high profile American companies (Disney, almost every major movie studio, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike, etc.) have been doing really shady shite in China for a long time. There have been a few talking about it for awhile and nobody was listening.

Remember, the South Park episode mocking this very thing aired just a few days before this specific incident occurred.

China has made demands and American companies have caved. China made bigger demands and the companies caved. China essentially realized that these American companies were complete pussies and could easily be bullied. Eventually there was going to be a high profile incident that ignited this whole thing.