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Originally Posted by Regorium
I really wish the NBA stood up to them. The NBA has a product that the Chinese people crave, and is something that China can't copy. They would get backlash internally from their citizens if they come down hard on the NBA.
They had a lot of leverage to stand up and do the right thing, and they failed horribly. It's really demoralizing and disappointing.
I don't give a full pass to Blizzard, but I understand how hard that situation is because if they came out against them, China would just ban Hearthstone, steal the code, and have a new functioning version by tomorrow.
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They haven't "stood up to them" per se, but Silver isn't exactly backing down either. The next few days will be interesting, they've only pulled preseason games to this point. I mean James Harden has already cowered, but the NBA does try to be the vanguard as far as being progressive for sports leagues. Maybe they'll finally be the ones to say "enough".