"I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand"

Oct 15, 2019
11:40:43am

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LeBron James: Daryl Morey was 'misinformed' before sending tweet about China and Hong Kong

LeBron James said he believes Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" before sending out a tweet in support of antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong that damaged relations between China and the NBA.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27847951/daryl-morey-was-misinformed-sending-tweet-china-hong-kong

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It's easy to to rip LeBron but

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:26am

We’d see a different reaction if LeBron had only criticized the timing (and not

garyfan

10/15/19 11:28am

Because the CCP is going to jail NBA players. Or something?

raines31

10/15/19 11:28am

that is a good point I hadn't thought of. Have their been reports

BYU71

10/15/19 11:28am

Those guys would put up with about 5 seconds of “poor treatment”

cougfanz

10/15/19 11:32am

There was tension where everyone had to stay at the hotels

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:32am

They were uncomfortable. I hate to hear our awesome athletes and

BYU71

10/15/19 11:34am

poor billionaires......

ThorLebowski

10/15/19 3:20pm

Then why come home and say Morey was wrong. If your reason is true then say it.

Big Tuna

10/15/19 11:29am

RE: Then why come home and say Morey was wrong. If your reason is true then say

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:33am

He's a coward. What about the people of Hong Kong? Pretty sure their week was

Ash

10/15/19 11:35am

The brave Morey was sitting home all safe while he tweeted

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:39am

And? Was he wrong?

Benfica1

10/15/19 12:52pm

Then why say Morey was misinformed about the situation?

Big Tuna

10/15/19 11:35am

Perhaps he used the wrong word.

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:36am

You call it clarification I call it a back pedal. He had a week to put together

IceCreamButt

10/15/19 11:42am

Some people just hear what they want to

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:48am

Personal feelings such as the personal feelings that China is in the wrong on

IceCreamButt

10/15/19 12:00pm

I’m a Laker fan and a LeBron fan. But to me this came across as

garyfan

10/15/19 1:00pm

No, he tweeted what Nike's execs told him to type in his phone.

Ash

10/15/19 1:00pm

The Founding Fathers could've stayed silent too and avoided any of the hassle

Ash

10/15/19 11:34am

Except Morey wasn't the one paying for his comments

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:35am

After the fact he said Morey was misinformed.

Big Tuna

10/15/19 11:36am

Did he say what he was misinformed about?

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:37am

"I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand"

Big Tuna

10/15/19 11:40am

Which could be referring to what would happen with the players

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:43am

What did Lebron have to pay for Morey's comments?

Idahofallsblue

10/15/19 11:47am

What? If it makes you feel better–he's paying for his comments now–by the NBA.

Benfica1

10/15/19 12:55pm

If they got the tiniest taste of living under an oppressive regime

korihor

10/15/19 11:40am

If you were in a foreign country as an LDS person

Huge Manatee

10/15/19 11:43am

No I would not go protest. But that's not the correct comparison.

korihor

10/15/19 11:58am

Let's get something straight about these kinds of comments: if you aren't

UNLVcougar

10/15/19 11:44am

Adam Silver flew out to China to meet with these teams so I can't imagine it was

NorCal Cougar

10/15/19 11:50am

They were wrong. The NBA players and families were in no

Baron

10/15/19 11:52am

So Lebron is comfortable doing business with a country that he feels threatened by because someone tweeted something?

YIsForBrigham

10/15/19 12:02pm

LeBron has always had this clown side, two-faced, self-serving side to him.

ThorLebowski

10/15/19 3:21pm

And it's always in one political direction. Ah, to be on the left where opinions

Ash

10/15/19 3:40pm

LeBron can goto hell. I’ve lost all human respect for that clown.

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