Kyrie Irving questions ESPN for labeling James Harden ‘disgruntled’
"Is he Disgruntled Adrian??"
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Mike Tirico feared China planting a false COVID test on him for covering their human rights abuses at the Olympics
"Your journalistic ethics have to show up during a broadcast, while you’re calling a game, and certainly in situations where politics are part of sports."
China won’t show Premier League matches this weekend over planned displays of support for Ukraine
The Premier League plans this weekend include captains wearing armbands in Ukrainian colors and "Football Stands Together" banners on Ukrainian flag backgrounds on screens. China is now refusing to show those matches.
Beijing Olympics reporting concerns include burner phones, health apps’ security flaws, and limits on who reporters can talk to
"MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped."
Adam Silver: NBA will lose “hundreds of millions of dollars” over Chinese media backlash
"I think that the magnitude of the loss will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars...probably less than $400 million.”
Chinese streaming broadcast refuses to mention Mesut Özil’s name, while Pro Evolution Soccer’s Chinese release pulls him
The PPTV broadcasters refused to mention Özil during the Bournemouth-Arsenal match Thursday.
Adrian Wojnarowski’s China show reportedly canceled by Tencent over Woj liking Daryl Morey’s tweet (UPDATED)
Woj in the House was billed by ESPN as the most-watched NBA show in the world.
NBA cancels all media availability for the duration of the Lakers and Nets trip to China
The NBA consulted with players for the decision.
Chinese government cancels all media availability for Lakers, Nets, and Adam Silver
Sponsors also pulled out, resulting in logos on the court being painted over.
Blizzard/Hong Kong saga has led to protests, censorship, boycotts, a caster resigning, and an employee walkout
The NBA/China dispute isn't the only one going on, as Blizzard's punishments for pro-Hong Kong protester content have also come under fire and led to a lot of notable backlash.
ESPN memo reportedly told shows to “avoid any political discussions about China and Hong Kong”
ESPN's focus on the basketball issues rather than the root of the Hong Kong protests appears to be by management's design.
China stops broadcasting NBA preseason games in latest fallout from Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong protest tweet
Morey's tweet has now led to NBA pre-season games being pulled off Chinese TV.
The Pac-12 Networks now have a distribution deal in China, but still no DirecTV deal
The Pac-12 will be distributing some of its games and programming in China through Alibaba and Youku Todou.
Stephon Marbury’s Chinese biopic starring Stephon Marbury has a crazy trailer
Will we get a chance to see My Other Home in this country?