> Perhaps we should not abandon them any sooner than we must. Who said anything about the NBA abandoning China? Their government is free to permit watching it

> Perhaps we should not abandon them any sooner than we must. Who said anything about the NBA abandoning China? Their government is free to permit watching it or not. > The NBA should stick to 'we are ambassadors for the USA to the world' and leave any politics at that. Silence can also be a political viewpoint. If you don't stand up for what you believe in you may lose it. The NBA has done a balancing act for the Chinese government, and neither moneyed interests nor government politics dictates what will happen next.