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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by ivankolev on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:50PM (#21195698)
Not likely, players (not superstars) can already make more money in Euroleague yet everyone given a choice wants to play at the highest level, which is NBA. Superstars even more so, Kawhi Leonard won a title in Toronto but chose to go back home in LA, for less guaranteed money.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by IllogicalLogic on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:33PM (#21197518)
You may overestimate how valuable western eyeballs are, a billion people can recreate this industry with government support quite easily.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by gamblor956 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:43PM (#21197624)
You may overestimate how valuable those billion viewers are, most of them don't have the money to buy anything.

Also, there are a great many cultural and economic reasons that foreign players generally avoid playing in China's existing professional sports league. Political oppression is just one of those reasons.

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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by IllogicalLogic on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:31PM (#21250680)
I don't buy that idea, western institutions that we generally think of as unique are quite easy to duplicate in Asia if the focus is put there.
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