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    ATHLETES’ OPPRESSION

    Jan 21, 2020 4 minutes
    BY RICHARD BROOKHISER

    We Americans love our sports, and so does the world. This year the National Football League slated five regular season games abroad—one in Mexico City, four in London. Baseball has been a hit in Japan and the Caribbean basin since forever. And basketball has a huge following in China, as we learned when the National Basketball Association kowtowed to the Chinese government after the manager of an NBA team expressed an opinion Beijing didn’t like.

    The words that shamed the NBA were tweeted by Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, in support of pro-freedom demonstrators in Hong Kong: “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.” China scolded, Americans folded.

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