Stern hot for China, cold for Vegas
Don’t go counting your chips just yet, Vegas. More and more, it sounds like David Stern would sooner stick his tongue in a light socket than stick an NBA franchise in Sin City.
All the posturing of the SuperSonics is just that - posturing.
When asked earlier this week if Vegas was a relocation option, Stern said simply “No,” and shelved all further discussion on the issue.
At the same time, Stern has a hankering to soak the NBA’s balls in China’s Red Sea by sponsoring a league in the world’s most populous nation.
STERN: “We will see in the next couple of years … the possibility of some joint venture between the NBA and someone in China. There are 300 million people in the United States and 300 million basketball players in China. There are extraordinary marketing opportunities in China.
Right. Extraordinary.
Think of all the cheap operations labor available from the indentured servants and political prisoners. Truly out of the ordinary.
Unions and child labor laws force our arenas to cost $400-$500 Million.
You could build a state-of-the-art facility in Shanghai for two hundred Renminbi — provided you’re down with the Chairman Mao and the secret Party handshake.
Us capitalists could really make out on this. Let’s be sure to rape the Chinese middle class of their wealth before they start getting uppity and start demanding electricity.
We need to make sure to get Nike and Reebok involved as well. They have first-hand experience in sweat shop management.
— credits to Ivan Carter, AP, Washington Post
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Are you really that ignorant and racist or are you just trying to inflame readers in hopes of driving traffic to this blog with no page rank?
The Chinese are crazy for Basketball. They no longer cheer only for Yao, who created the craze, but for top players on favorite teams.
We should be cashing in on this craze if we can. It is one way to lower the deficit.
Now if we can just get assholes like you to quit buying at Walmart you would not have to demonize China….
May 4th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Great reply.
However, you know and I know China is not one country. Some citizens are sliding their way into the information age while others are stuck in a Sui Dynasty peasant cottage rubbing sticks together.
Call me ignorant or a capitalist arse, that’s cool. Calling me a bigot, however, is a whale of a different ocean.
After all, isn’t anti-bigot bigotry still bigotry? No? Try this sentence on for size.
“I hate bigots.”
Perhaps you can even find yourself a WalMart tool down in Laos to make you a corresponding iron on for your bright red T-Shirt.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:44 am
No, I have come to hate you….
I look bad in red, but you look worse in a white hood setting a cross on fire….