The NBA commissioner probably has the <i>power</i> to do that. Note that he, essentially, fired the <i>owner</i> of the Clippers. So, in principle, he probably could do it.<p>In practice, there is absolutely no way he could do so. He'd destroy the NBA for at least a decade, maybe a generation.
> "We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business," Silver said. "We said there's no chance that's happening. There's no chance we'll even discipline him."<p>Okay fine, but thus far it’s felt like the overriding concern here is the financial fallout. I don’t know how else to explain LeBron’s behavior recently. Maybe players are acting more independently now, hoping to get their <i>own</i> China deals and that the Player’s association would back them up?
When you have 100 million, getting only 50m is hard. That is how chinese ccp play the game. That is how at least one nba player play the game.<p>They will relax, tight, find some weaker ... they have taken control of 1.4 billion people. They know politics.<p>God bless America.
So, they don't want us to think about lives in Hong Kong.<p>But they interfere with other countries to literally try to get lives destroyed.<p>Yeah, so people were wondering why i was Anti-China i suppose? :p
The NBA is absolutely huge in China, while it would be a big hit to owners and franchisees, the NBA should announce they are pulling out of everything in China indefinitely.<p>This strategy would reverse the pressure back onto China, as Chinese citizens will be very upset to not have NBA games and merchandise available. It would shift the focus back onto the Chinese government from its own citizens.