NBA, China, and the Coming Season

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to The Athletic's National Basketball Association correspondent Michael Lee about all things NBA, China, and LeBron. We also preview the forthcoming season and I give my mighty predictions for the year.

We also have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to the NBA’s Harrison Barnes and New York Yankee fans. We also have a Kaepernick Watch. All this and more!

Michael Lee

Twitter: @MrMichaelLee

https://theathletic.com/author/michael-lee/

Zirin, LeBron James’s Politics Stop at the Water’s Edge

https://www.thenation.com/article/lebron-james-china/

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0:55.9	The last decade or so, we've open to accepting, you know, player activists in a way that
1:04.2	maybe we did in 30 years ago. And now we've reached a situation where no one wants to see
1:09.9	that, you know.
1:11.2	And we've already seen, you know, Kaepernick lose his job because of it.
1:15.9	And now maybe guys just feel like, you know what, they didn't like me speaking out on this,
1:21.6	and I'll just keep my mouth shut on everything else from here.
1:23.8	And I don't want to see that happen.
1:36.5	Yeah. from here, and I don't want to see that happen. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
1:38.6	I'm Dave Ziron.
1:39.7	This week, we have a very special guest.
1:41.5	We're talking to Michael Lee,
1:42.7	the national NBA correspondent for
1:44.8	the athletic we're not only going to talk about the forthcoming NBA season which believe me we will
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