{"id":599268,"date":"2021-07-21T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599268"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:51:09","slug":"lebron-james-space-jam-bombs-denied-china-opening-despite-groveling-to-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-space-jam-bombs-denied-china-opening-despite-groveling-to-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James\u2019 \u2018Space Jam\u2019 Bombs, Denied China Opening Despite Groveling To Communists\u00a0"},"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\">24<\/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%2Flebron-james-space-jam-bombs-denied-china-opening-despite-groveling-to-communists%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=599268&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328441291.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The \u201cSpace Jam\u201d sequel starring woke NBA star LeBron James is on track to lose more than a hundred million dollars after being shut out from Communist China and scoring anemic numbers at domestic theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The hit to \u201cSpace Jam: A New Legacy\u201d is particularly bad news for James, who infamously pandered publicly to Communist China and turned his back on freedom protesters in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Outkick founder and radio host Clay Travis summed up the damage to James, and the general silence from the media about it, Wednesday on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite LeBron James shutting up &amp; dribbling for Chairman Xi, China still won\u2019t allow Space Jam 2 to air, meaning the movie is likely to lose several hundred million dollars. Should be a massive story. LeBron bent the knee &amp; China still spurned him. Yet media isn\u2019t covering it,\u201d Travis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace Jam 2 cost $200 million to make and market and will likely only make $60-70 million without China,\u201d he continued. \u201cMeaning LeBron\u2019s movie will lose over a hundred million dollars, at least. China blocking the movie is a huge story. But no one is even discussing it in media. Strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeBron ripped the first amendment in the US, declined to speak up for basic human rights in China, &amp; shut up and dribbled for Chairman Xi all to get Space Jam 2 on in China,\u201d Travis added. \u201cAnd now LeBron won\u2019t even talk about his movie being banned. Because he\u2019s still afraid of upsetting China.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.52\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Despite LeBron James shutting up &amp; dribbling for Chairman Xi, China still won\u2019t allow Space Jam 2 to air, meaning the movie is likely to lose several hundred million dollars. Should be a massive story. LeBron bent the knee &amp; China still spurned him. Yet media isn\u2019t covering it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1417861889359552518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.522935779817\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron ripped the first amendment in the US, declined to speak up for basic human rights in China, &amp; shut up and dribbled for Chairman Xi all to get Space Jam 2 on in China. And now LeBron won\u2019t even talk about his movie being banned. Because he\u2019s still afraid of upsetting China.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1417864051410063366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/17\/nolte-lebron-james-space-jam-sequel-underperforms-at-box-office-disneys-black-widow-sinks\/\">John Nolte<\/a> at Breitbart reported Saturday that the sequel&nbsp;\u201cdied at the domestic box office\u201d its opening weekend, pulling \u201ca pathetic $32 million opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy comparison, all the way back in 1996, Michael Jordan\u2019s original cleared $27.5 million on more than a thousand fewer theaters,\u201d Nolte emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Just to produce the flick, he said, it cost $150 million, \u201cand that doesn\u2019t include promotional costs, which easily puts it closer to $250 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlenty of movies die a domestic death at the box office,\u201d Nolte explained. \u201cHowever, they can still become profitable and declare themselves a worldwide hit, thanks mainly to China\u2019s mammoth box office market, which has saved many Hollywood blockbusters from financial catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 movie was denied a Chinese opening, though, despite his pandering to China. Most notably, James left then-Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morrey to dangle after he committed the grave sin of expressing support to Honk Kong protesters, The Daily Wire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-pandering-to-china-fails-to-win-him-chinese-release-date-for-space-jam-2\">Megan Basham<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26.628964059197\">\n<p><em>Last October, after then-Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morrey posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1181056501303123969?s=20\">tweet<\/a> in support of Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy protesters, James was quick to provide aid and comfort to their totalitarian oppressors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disaster-lebron-tries-to-explain-china-remarks-digs-deeper-hole\">reported<\/a>, James said, in a move that was widely perceived as an effort to stay in the CCP\u2019s good graces, \u201cWe all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you\u2019re not thinking about others and you\u2019re only thinking about yourself.\u201d He added, \u201cI don\u2019t want to get into a \u2026 feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Basketball fans then routinely taunted James, who has postured himself as a social justice warrior, for his ongoing silence in the face of China\u2019s oppressive policies in Hong Kong and its humanitarian atrocities against its own Uyghur population.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Basham also highlighted the embarrassing reviews of \u201cSpace Jam: A New Legacy,\u201d one of which likened the flick to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-pandering-to-china-fails-to-win-him-chinese-release-date-for-space-jam-2\">corporate ad campaign<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSpace Jam\u201d sequel starring woke NBA star LeBron James is on track to lose more than a hundred million dollars after being shut out from Communist China and scoring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}