{"id":1538631,"date":"2022-07-04T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538631"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:49:43","slug":"former-top-espn-journalist-goes-after-china-and-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-top-espn-journalist-goes-after-china-and-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Top ESPN Journalist Goes After China And LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-top-espn-journalist-goes-after-china-and-lebron-james%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former top ESPN journalist Bob Ley called out LeBron James and the NBA\u2019s relationship with China during a recent interview as controversy swirls around Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf, which is poaching golfers away from the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/espn-bob-ley-liv-golf-criticism-nba\">reported<\/a> that Ley made the remarks during an interview on Michelle Beadle\u2019s podcast \u201cWhat Did I Miss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics say that Saudi Arabia is using sportswashing to boost its public image as it faces criticism over its human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe LIV Golf thing has unleashed a fury of convenient and easy outrage, not that I disagree with it at all. \u2026 It\u2019s real easy to be p\u2014\u2013 off and angry about LIV Golf and Saudi. All I ask for is philosophical and ideological consistency. Apply it to China consistently, LeBron,\u201d Ley said. \u201cThere\u2019s been other reporting. I mean, the Fainaru brothers at ESPN.com have shown some of the things with camps and knowledge of what the NBA\u2019s involved with. China has as many issues as any other country, and is the outrage tempered by the popularity of the sport and the dollars at stake?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ley called out James specifically, saying that the NBA megastar had the \u201copportunity\u201d to expose what was going on in China. Ley made the remarks within the context of how a 2019 tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/backfire-nba-houston-rockets-cower-to-communist-china-get-blasted-online\">sparked<\/a> a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-heres-how-much-money-that-pro-hong-kong-tweet-cost-the-nba\">problem<\/a> for the NBA in China.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News noted that James, whose team was in China at the time, waited until he returned to the U.S. before he made a statement about the incident. James attacked Morey publicly, claiming he \u201cwasn\u2019t educated on the situation\u201d and that there were \u201ca lot of negatives that comes with\u201d having free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeBron, I think, has a responsibility, and an opportunity more importantly. And it\u2019s easy for people to come to the conclusion that players, at a time when social voice and equity are very much a part of sports, moreso than ever before, here\u2019s an opportunity to make a stand,\u201d Ley said.\u00a0\u201cIf you are a billionaire, you can afford to perhaps make a stand and at least become educated. Freedom of speech in China is a very different thing. Freedom of access to the internet is a very different thing. Is there an opposition party in China? Oh no, not for the last 60 or 70 years. Are we comfortable dealing with a nation like that and putting it all on the table? Those are questions people need to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to get into a froth about LIV Golf \u2014 and you have every right to \u2014 take a pause, take a deep breath, and look at China,\u201d he concluded. \u201cShould this outrage and should this introspection extend to the NBA?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former top ESPN journalist Bob Ley called out LeBron James and the NBA\u2019s relationship with China during a recent interview as controversy swirls around Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf, which is poaching golfers away from the PGA Tour. 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