Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by Analemma_ on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:13PM (#21204582)

The NBA at least seems to be walking back their initial condemnation of Morey's comments, China be damned: [0]. We should give them credit for that. Conversely, there's been radio silence from Blizzard so far.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-ch...

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by f-securus on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:24PM (#21204714)

But they ejected fans that had HK posters?

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by sp332 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:29PM (#21204777)

Things are moving pretty fast. Silver came out on the side of free speech, as far as I can see, just a few hours before the fan was ejected for yelling "Free Hong Kong". It's possible that the Philadelphia officials thought they were following the league's lead even if the NBA's official stance had changed.

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by jessaustin on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:54PM (#21205092)

Someone else should probably try it. Then again, NBA tickets are expensive... maybe something to try in the fourth quarter?

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by Rebelgecko on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:01PM (#21205193)

It'll be interesting to see what happens at the next Laker home game. Someone raised like $40k on GoFundMe to hand out pro-HK shirts

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by 556343throwaway on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:57PM (#21206634)

Because those fans were causing a disruption, not because of their message.

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