Speaker 1: You're listening to comedy.
Speaker 2: Central high school senior becomes top pick in NBA Draft.
Speaker 2: Now the hard part breaking the news to Oxford University's
Speaker 2: undergraduate Department of Medieval French Literature.
Speaker 3: They'll miss him.
Speaker 2: The NBA held its annual prom last night at Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden, with this year's theme Giant Teenagers. Three of
Speaker 2: the top four draft picks came straight out of high school,
Speaker 2: including number one pick Kwame Brown. As always, the moments
Speaker 2: leading up to the number one selection were fraught with
Speaker 2: tension and excitement.
Speaker 4: With the first pick in the two thousand and one
Speaker 4: NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards select Kwame Brown from Gwynn Academy, Brunswick, Georgia.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was.
Speaker 2: I was very upset that I didn't get pay. Kwame Brown,
Speaker 2: the top draft pick, is a six foot eleven high
Speaker 2: school senior from George's Glen Academy.
Speaker 3: He was welcome to.
Speaker 2: The league by tiny Jewish NBA Commissioner David Stern. Perhaps
Speaker 2: I can give you a hint of what their conversation
Speaker 2: was like, you've big.
Speaker 1: That was their conversation.
Speaker 2: The first player selected with college experience was Michigan State's
Speaker 2: twenty year old sophomore Jason Richardson, or as he was
Speaker 2: known in yesterday's draft.
Speaker 3: Old Man.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Lakers, flushed with confidence after dominating
Speaker 2: their way to a second straight NBA title, didn't even
Speaker 2: bother selecting a player.
Speaker 3: Instead, they used their first round.
Speaker 2: Pick to draft five foot four inch Udah Hoggen, the
Speaker 2: drama teacher. If they hope will bring a long needed
Speaker 2: semblance of craft to shacks acting.
Speaker 3: Now, you'd huggin.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: With the unusually high number of high school seniors applying
Speaker 2: for the draft this year, a controversy has arisen over
Speaker 2: age requirements for the NBA. I'm joined now by our
Speaker 2: senior NBA analyst, Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 3: Stephen, thank you very much for joining us. Now let's
Speaker 3: talk NBA.
Speaker 5: Let's talk smack all right.
Speaker 2: Commissioner Stern has himself proposed a minimum age requirement of
Speaker 2: twenty years to be in the NBA to get drafted.
Speaker 3: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6: I can't say I do. John, there's a fundamental hypocrisy
Speaker 6: at work here. Our society says, if you're eighteen, you're
Speaker 6: old enough to vote or to die for your country.
Speaker 6: If you're old enough to do those things, you're certainly
Speaker 6: old enough to toss a ball through a basket for
Speaker 6: enough money to forever skew your view of reality.
Speaker 3: In your mind.
Speaker 2: Stephen, then a eighteen years should be the cutoff age.
Speaker 6: That's right, John. If you're old enough to get into
Speaker 6: a PG. Thirteen movie, you should be allowed to play
Speaker 6: the hoops PG thirteen.
Speaker 3: I think you only have to be thirteen, all right.
Speaker 6: A different example, if the elders of your synagogue pronounce
Speaker 6: you a man, you're certainly mature enough to play the ball.
Speaker 3: That's thirteen two, John, What do you.
Speaker 6: Have against thirteen year olds? I was old enough to
Speaker 6: be tried as an adult at thirteen, So don't tell
Speaker 6: me an eighteen or a nineteen year old isn't mature
Speaker 6: enough for the NBA.
Speaker 3: You were in a prison at thirteen.
Speaker 6: Bro, No, No, John, I was tried at thirteen. They
Speaker 6: never found the weapon. Man, it's amazing how far little
Speaker 6: Kasherule will go in the criminal justice system corruption. Here's
Speaker 6: the point, John, we need to get these kids in
Speaker 6: the NBA, because if they're anything like me at that age,
Speaker 6: they're going to need a lot of cash.
Speaker 7: Go Wizards, I got tonight an NBA legend now an
Speaker 7: analyst for TNTs inside the NBA, also currently spokesperson for
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Speaker 2: No for real, please welcome Saquilo Neil.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 8: Tell me that was exhilarating. Now I know how my
Speaker 8: son feels. I do I do that to him?
Speaker 2: And then he tries to do that to me and
Speaker 2: I think, like, oh.
Speaker 3: I feel young again? Is this now?
Speaker 2: Did that tire you out at all? Because now I
Speaker 2: feel like this is not enough refreshment for you?
Speaker 1: Does this seem like it? How big is your mug
Speaker 1: get home?
Speaker 9: It's actually about that high, about that thick, So there's.
Speaker 2: More like like like the thing you wrench your mouth
Speaker 2: out with after brushing you.
Speaker 9: This would be like a shot glass. Even though I
Speaker 9: don't drink in public, it's more like a shot glass.
Speaker 2: And I can barely lift mine, so you could see
Speaker 2: there's differences with you.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: By the way, is this is it hard for you?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: You look still like you Actually?
Speaker 9: Actually, I'm I'm living fabulous. I'm comfortable in my own skin.
Speaker 9: I'm staying out of trouble. I'm working on my PhD.
Speaker 9: I graduated moth uh, I'm still sexy. H I still
Speaker 9: have some firmness in my ass when I touch up.
Speaker 2: Other than that, I actually was not going to mention
Speaker 2: that earlier, but I can attest to the firmness.
Speaker 3: What is the PhD that you're getting in May? What
Speaker 3: is this?
Speaker 9: It's an HRD Organizational Leadership at Barry University.
Speaker 1: Now I graduated May fifth.
Speaker 2: In school, is it impossible for you to blend in
Speaker 2: as a student? Where can if you sit up front?
Speaker 2: Basically people don't even realize.
Speaker 3: There's a class going on? Is what is the feeling
Speaker 3: of you in class? How do your other classmates to
Speaker 3: deal with you?
Speaker 9: Well, they look to see if I really am doing
Speaker 9: the work. They look to see if I really know
Speaker 9: what's going on. So I like to do my homework.
Speaker 9: I like to be the first one to answer the question.
Speaker 9: So like you know, when the teachers ask the questions,
Speaker 9: I go, I know that one.
Speaker 1: I know that one.
Speaker 3: Now when you do that, does she see you?
Speaker 1: Yes? Who does? Who does?
Speaker 3: He sees?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: He sees me? In Now why would they think you
Speaker 3: wouldn't do the word?
Speaker 2: Because the truth of the matter is at your status
Speaker 2: as an icon, as a legend, Why would you go
Speaker 2: back to school to screw around?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. You're right, right, I am right?
Speaker 1: You know. It's just the world we live in.
Speaker 9: And like, you know, when I'm in class, they look
Speaker 9: at me like no, they give me that look like
Speaker 9: what is he doing there?
Speaker 1: But you know, I think I've take care of that. Yes, Weggie, Reggie.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't know what the college policy is on that,
Speaker 2: But there's one of those real quick and the wold
Speaker 2: thing's over?
Speaker 3: Are you able to fit it in? You got your
Speaker 3: job as an analyst? Are you enjoying?
Speaker 2: Is it difficult? You're so close to having been playing.
Speaker 2: You still look like you get out there and play,
Speaker 2: and I bet you could. Is it hard now to
Speaker 2: sit and watch the games and analyze it and not
Speaker 2: let the competitive juices start to flow and want to
Speaker 2: dive out there and play.
Speaker 9: It's fun, you know. I try to. I try to
Speaker 9: make people laugh, you know. I'm trying to be like
Speaker 9: you when I'm on TV.
Speaker 1: I try to.
Speaker 2: I've always felt that I've been a role model.
Speaker 1: For you, Yes, you have, you have. I try to
Speaker 1: try to have any idea.
Speaker 2: If if I could dunk once, I would give it
Speaker 2: all up seriously because my son, now he very much.
Speaker 2: First of all, he's a huge fan of yours. He
Speaker 2: loves basketball, and he's saying to me, you know, I
Speaker 2: would love to be a professional basketball player.
Speaker 3: I would love to do that.
Speaker 2: And I don't know at what age do I break
Speaker 2: to him that he's Jewish? Like, I don't know, Like,
Speaker 2: what do you how do you even say that?
Speaker 9: Well, when you see him, when you see him tonight,
Speaker 9: tell him, uncle Shack, says Brack Hussim.
Speaker 10: Tell him, tell him.
Speaker 9: Nice, Uncle Shack, and then tell him last, and then
Speaker 9: tell them.
Speaker 1: And then tell him that he can make it. He
Speaker 1: can make it, you know what.
Speaker 2: I Am gonna tell him that, and I'm gonna encourage him.
Speaker 2: And it's always great to see you.
Speaker 3: You're a good man. And no, and what quick gave
Speaker 3: before you go?
Speaker 2: Nicks Bucks, who's making the final eighth spot in the East.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go to the Knicks. Chaquilloo, everybody.
Speaker 2: Continuing in the world of sports, last night, millions of
Speaker 2: NBA fans across the country tuned in to watch the
Speaker 2: highly anticipated debut of eighteen year old Phenome Lebron James
Speaker 2: and man he was spectacular.
Speaker 1: Check this so you did that?
Speaker 3: Guy looked like a ten years so to selling veteran.
Speaker 3: He was awesome the way he drove the drink to.
Speaker 1: The by the way.
Speaker 2: I also heard he played his first basketball game, and
Speaker 2: though as Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Sacramento Kings, James
Speaker 2: defied even the loftiest expectations with impressive statistics for a
Speaker 2: newcomer twenty five points, nine assists, six rebounds, four steals,
Speaker 2: eighty five posse members, fifteen pairs have thrown panties, one
Speaker 2: bejeweled goblet. ESPN actually pointed out Lebron's debut was the
Speaker 2: best statistically ever for a pro athlete straight out of
Speaker 2: high school, which sends a clear message to kids everywhere
Speaker 2: education is for losers.
Speaker 3: Seriously, those stay in school.
Speaker 2: So far, James appears unfazed by the media spotlight, even
Speaker 2: embracing it by wearing the vaunted number twenty three, which
Speaker 2: of course only invites comparison with that other famous number
Speaker 2: twenty three New York nick legend Sid Tan and Bound.
Speaker 2: You know the forties kids who were always.
Speaker 3: Saying they wanted to be like Sid. This game, I love.
Speaker 2: Lebron Lebron's performance also came as a relief to NBA executives,
Speaker 2: as it drew attention away from a public spat between
Speaker 2: two of its biggest stars. LA Laker teammates Kobe Bryan
Speaker 2: and Shaquille O'Neil have.
Speaker 3: Been embroiled in a war of words over leadership of
Speaker 3: their team.
Speaker 2: During a telephone interview with ESPN, Kobe questioned Shaq's leadership skills,
Speaker 2: accused him of being childlike and selfish, and derided his unprofessionalism.
Speaker 2: Shaq responded to quote Kobe's the one on the rape
Speaker 2: trial thing?
Speaker 3: Right? Is that? Am I wrong about?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: Is that? Fortunately, it appears the rift between the two
Speaker 2: stars may soon be over. Two men are rumored to
Speaker 2: have talked things over, and a truly hopeful sign. This afternoon,
Speaker 2: Kobe gave Shack and eight carrot purple diamond ring worth
Speaker 2: four million dollars.
Speaker 11: My guest tonight is a four times NBA Champion and
Speaker 11: a four time NBA All Star who plays for the
Speaker 11: Golden State Warriors. He's here to talk about his latest
Speaker 11: championship win, his hit podcast, and so much more. Please
Speaker 11: welcome Draymond Greene.
Speaker 3: Mister Draymond green welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
Speaker 11: I'm shocked that you have time to do anything after
Speaker 11: winning your fourth NBA championship because you own.
Speaker 12: You know, this one feels different than any other one
Speaker 12: in what way? It's like the ultimate, It's the best.
Speaker 11: Let's let's talk about Let's jump straight into it.
Speaker 5: This is what I love about you.
Speaker 11: You know, there was an error in sports where you know,
Speaker 11: people would sort of say what they mean on the court,
Speaker 11: but then when they would come off the court, they
Speaker 11: did an interview, what do you think about this and
Speaker 11: be like, oh, it was a good game or it
Speaker 11: was a fun game. Draymond Green says what he feels.
Speaker 11: Draymond Green says what he means. The fans love you
Speaker 11: because of this. I love watching the postgame interviews because
Speaker 11: of you.
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about.
Speaker 11: That aspect of the game. You've been honest about it
Speaker 11: from the beginning. People wrote your team off, people say
Speaker 11: Golden State was done for Does this feel like like
Speaker 11: like vindication in the biggest way it does.
Speaker 12: I felt like people doubted us more this time than
Speaker 12: they did prior to twenty fifteen, when we had never
Speaker 12: won anything, and I think that's ultimately you know, everybody's like,
Speaker 12: oh why why in the parade are y'all saying f
Speaker 12: everybody and shut up?
Speaker 1: And that's because the reality is.
Speaker 12: They they disrespected the work we've already done, right, you know,
Speaker 12: to disrespect us as if we aren't champions and just
Speaker 12: write us off like we hadn't done it before. That's
Speaker 12: why I said, supple, can I tell you what I
Speaker 12: also like? This is what I like.
Speaker 11: There's a there's an element of danger that's been infused
Speaker 11: into the team because I think you know this. The
Speaker 11: Golden State Warriors are an amazing team, but you guys
Speaker 11: have like a bit of a like like a like
Speaker 11: a Christian youth group vibe about you.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 11: No, I mean especially like Clay and Stafford, like you're
Speaker 11: the bad boy of the group, but like Clan Stephan
Speaker 11: is very much like I'll see you guys on Sunday.
Speaker 3: It's like a nice thing.
Speaker 11: And I think there was this attitude in the league
Speaker 11: where people are like, man, they're the nice guys. You
Speaker 11: can say anything about them, they won't do anything. I
Speaker 11: saw you in one of the post postmatch interviews where
Speaker 11: you said, they said, what do you think happened? You said,
Speaker 11: I thought I was too soft in that game. You
Speaker 11: changed everything after that. How do you maintain being good players,
Speaker 11: being good people, but still bringing enough hardness to the
Speaker 11: game while playing while still playing clean?
Speaker 12: Well, I think ultimately you follow your leader. And so
Speaker 12: when you call us a youth church group, that's Steph
Speaker 12: Curry to the tea.
Speaker 1: That's what he is. He may as well go run
Speaker 1: the ministry.
Speaker 12: But now Clay, I think everybody kind of has miss
Speaker 12: under Clay misunderstood and way Clay's a little wild, like
Speaker 12: Clay go off the rail a little bit.
Speaker 11: Is this pre injury Clai or post injury has he changed?
Speaker 12: He's a little more tame after the injury he was
Speaker 12: before the injury. But I think, you know, there's kind
Speaker 12: of this misconception of to take this disres it's like
Speaker 12: light skinned guys like that's.
Speaker 13: That's funny that you said men.
Speaker 11: Don't get hurt like leight skin guys are reallything, Like.
Speaker 12: What there's like this misconception of light skinned guys being soft.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 12: And I always but like you just but yeah, like
Speaker 12: you just said I was the soft one like we saw.
Speaker 1: Ye Steph Curry was great. Yes, I was the soft one.
Speaker 12: So I think, you know, it may be time to
Speaker 12: change the misconceps.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, you got You've got four championships. You know
Speaker 11: it feels like each championship has a story. You know,
Speaker 11: the first time is who is this team? What are
Speaker 11: they doing? Steve Kurr, this this whole mix. I would
Speaker 11: argue that your team has almost reshaped basketball. You know,
Speaker 11: the way teams play, the way you move the ball,
Speaker 11: where people shoot from, how you defended, all of that
Speaker 11: has changed because of Golden States. Like when you look
Speaker 11: at your fourth championship, how do you motivate yourself to
Speaker 11: do even more now? Because most would go, I've won.
Speaker 11: What else do I have to push myself on?
Speaker 12: Well, Lebron has far and if I get five him
Speaker 12: the greatest ever?
Speaker 1: Right Ah?
Speaker 12: Honestly, Like like that's the challenge, Like can you do
Speaker 12: it again?
Speaker 1: Like the moment we finished, I'm standing.
Speaker 12: Up on a podium and I'm like this this is crazy,
Speaker 12: Like it's wild.
Speaker 1: How do we get back here? I like that it's.
Speaker 12: Feeling like my biggest spirit when we wanted the first
Speaker 12: one was that this feeling is so great. I'll never
Speaker 12: feel this again in my life.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 12: And so you're just chasing that feeling again. And quite frankly,
Speaker 12: like I said before the season, nobody has proven that
Speaker 12: they can beat us.
Speaker 1: We still happen.
Speaker 3: Mmmm. So you're going into another season.
Speaker 11: The team is looking good, the spirit and just in
Speaker 11: the city, like if you're in Oakland, you know, even
Speaker 11: around San Francisco, you can feel as a pride in
Speaker 11: and around the team. I feel it change in you
Speaker 11: as well in that you know, there were some moments
Speaker 11: where it felt it felt like Draymond Green was angry.
Speaker 11: You know, people weren't giving you the respect that you deserved.
Speaker 11: Now it seems like you play with the anger, but
Speaker 11: you have like a you have like a different swag
Speaker 11: to you as a person. Now you you laught at
Speaker 11: people's doubts. You know, you enjoy those moments. On your podcast,
Speaker 11: for instance, you put it all out there. What do
Speaker 11: you think changed in your life?
Speaker 12: I think a having a fiance that I have, She's incredible.
Speaker 12: She's changed me and I love that, thank you. And
Speaker 12: also my children, they've changed me. And like my mom
Speaker 12: constantly reminds me, hey them, baby's watching you like, make
Speaker 12: sure you're on your best behavior.
Speaker 1: The babies are watching you.
Speaker 12: And so I think that's changed me and it's helped
Speaker 12: me channel a lot. Now, another thing that's helped me
Speaker 12: is when you have that fire in that chip as
Speaker 12: a second round pick, everybody loves it, it's great. But
Speaker 12: when you carry that same chip as a four time
Speaker 12: All Star, as a four time champman, it's then distasteful
Speaker 12: because you're not the underdog anymore.
Speaker 11: That's interesting.
Speaker 12: And so what I realized was that I was carrying
Speaker 12: that same chip that allowed me to remember the thirty
Speaker 12: four guys that was drafted before me in the year
Speaker 12: five and six, and people are starting to look at
Speaker 12: it like, man, that's nasty, that's distasteful, And I knew
Speaker 12: that I wanted to change that. I don't want the
Speaker 12: perception of me to be a bad taste in someone.
Speaker 11: I hear what you're saying. You weren't trying to be
Speaker 11: the villain. You were just trying to be somebody who's driven.
Speaker 11: It changes with your position of power.
Speaker 1: I hear you. Before I let you go.
Speaker 11: This one thing I've always wanted to know about that
Speaker 11: elements of the game with the players and the teams
Speaker 11: and the fans and all of that is you have
Speaker 11: this camaraderie. You guys have this drive, You have this
Speaker 11: world that we don't know about as the fans, and
Speaker 11: when the fans are cussing you guys out from the sides.
Speaker 11: On the one hand, fans are there to throw you
Speaker 11: off your game. They want to say whatever to get
Speaker 11: at you, and that's part of being their lives. On
Speaker 11: the other hand, you're human beings. You have families, you know,
Speaker 11: you have emotions. How do you think we find that
Speaker 11: balance between what fans can say at a game and
Speaker 11: what you should or shouldn't respond to as an athlete.
Speaker 12: Well, I used to feel like fans should be stopped
Speaker 12: from saying some of the things that they say.
Speaker 14: Uh huh.
Speaker 12: Then Commissioner Silver comes out and say, hey man, those
Speaker 12: Boston fans are great, as the saying Hugh Dremond. So
Speaker 12: I'm like, all right, commission is the best commissioner. And
Speaker 12: like I said on my tweet, he's probably one of
Speaker 12: the best CEOs in America, let alone commissioner of the
Speaker 12: Sports League.
Speaker 1: But he's like, oh, that's great. So my response to
Speaker 1: that is great cool.
Speaker 12: Can I turn to yo them because if I if
Speaker 12: I can, then no problem.
Speaker 1: Let them yell what they want to yell.
Speaker 12: I yell what I want to yell, and I continue
Speaker 12: down the court. And so I think the thing for
Speaker 12: me is like some at some point you're kind of
Speaker 12: allowing them to do this and encouraging it in a
Speaker 12: way because they know. If I yell that to Draymond
Speaker 12: and he says that back to me, he's getting fined
Speaker 12: twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: He's getting fined fifty thousand dollars. So what I'll say
Speaker 1: the commissions, no problem.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 12: Let them do their thing, but let me do my
Speaker 12: thing and don't hit my pocketbook.
Speaker 1: Yo, man, I can talk to you Feve about if.
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Speaker 1: Check out his pop cop Drmon Green show on The Sessions.
Speaker 11: Draymond Green is how vailable I'm prime, Tod wanna take
Speaker 11: Krick Craik got.
Speaker 1: Right back.
Speaker 11: The MBA twenty nine of the world's best basketball teams,
Speaker 11: and also the Knicks. The regular season hasn't even kicked
Speaker 11: off yet, but there's already been a ton of drama.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 11: If you haven't been keeping up last week, the general
Speaker 11: manager of the Houston Rockets posted a tweet in support
Speaker 11: of the pro democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the
Speaker 11: NBA quickly put out a statement distancing themselves from that tweet.
Speaker 11: What was funny about this, though, was that the English
Speaker 11: version of the statement was very different from what it
Speaker 11: was being translated to for the Chinese Internet. So like
Speaker 11: in English, the statement was basically like, hey, China, We're
Speaker 11: sorry you're offended, but then the Mandarin one was like
Speaker 11: rest assured, China.
Speaker 1: We will feed this man to the wolves.
Speaker 11: But then here in America people were pissed that the
Speaker 11: NBA was kowtowing to China, right, so yesterday they went
Speaker 11: into damage control mode and things have only escalated from there.
Speaker 2: There's new fallout this evening in the NBA's firestorm with China.
Speaker 15: The NBA tonight fighting bag after being blasted for caving
Speaker 15: to China's Commune Government Commissioner Adam Silver defending Houston Rockets
Speaker 15: GM Darryl Mory.
Speaker 9: We are not apologizing for Darryl exercising his freedom of expression.
Speaker 13: Shortly after, Adam Silver voiced the league's support for free speech,
Speaker 13: fresh backlash from the communist regime in Beijing.
Speaker 15: China's government tonight digging in canceling a Brooklyn Nets event
Speaker 15: at a Shanghai school.
Speaker 6: In the last few hours, China has started pulling down
Speaker 6: Lakers and Nets signage.
Speaker 13: At least two major Chinese retailers have pulled Houston Rockets
Speaker 13: merchandise from their websites. China's state TV said it won't
Speaker 13: broadcast or stream NBA preseason games in China. Oh no,
Speaker 13: not the preseason.
Speaker 11: No, nobody cares about the preseason games. Fans in America like,
Speaker 11: can you ban them here as well?
Speaker 3: Can you? Yeah?
Speaker 11: The preseason is just like the boring stuff we're forced
Speaker 11: to sit through before the main event. Like China banning
Speaker 11: preseason is like Disney getting rid of its lines, just like,
Speaker 11: I'm so sorry, but you'll have to go straight to
Speaker 11: the rides from now on. I wish it didn't come
Speaker 11: to this.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 11: Still, though, China is seriously pissed off about the tweets, right,
Speaker 11: and they're also pissed off about the response from the NBA.
Speaker 11: And they aren't just taking preseason games off the air,
Speaker 11: they're also canceling NBA events. They're ripping down NBA signs everywhere.
Speaker 11: In fact, like everything NBA related is basically banned. Yeah,
Speaker 11: no basketball, no lebron in fact, no jumping. Yeah you
Speaker 11: see a puddle, you just walk right through that shit.
Speaker 11: You can have donuts, but no duncan. And all office
Speaker 11: workers in China, if you need to throw something in
Speaker 11: the trash, none of this, no buzzer beaters. You get
Speaker 11: out and you just place it gently in the bin.
Speaker 11: So China is basically going to war with the NBA,
Speaker 11: all because of a single tweet. And as surprising as
Speaker 11: that may seem to some people, the truth is this
Speaker 11: kind of thing has been happening between China and American
Speaker 11: companies a lot.
Speaker 14: The NBA not the only one of feeling is a
Speaker 14: heat either. US jeweler Tiffany also under fire after sweeting
Speaker 14: an image of a Chinese model covering one eye, with
Speaker 14: people believing it was done in solidarity with those Hong
Speaker 14: Kong protests.
Speaker 11: Nike a bound to pressure from Beijing, pulling a sneaker
Speaker 11: from the Chinese market.
Speaker 13: Activision has suspended a professional video game player and taken
Speaker 13: away his prize money.
Speaker 3: Apple took the Taiwan emoji off its keyboard.
Speaker 13: If you are in Hong Kong, Macaw Marriott apologized to
Speaker 13: the Chinese governments. Jivoshi and Coach issued apology messides, benz
Speaker 13: Is offering an apology.
Speaker 5: The Gap issued a sincere apology.
Speaker 13: Built it saying we apologize deeply for the mistake.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 11: China gets offended by a lot of shit. But like
Speaker 11: that one guy at work who takes everything personally, you're
Speaker 11: just like, hey, man, I.
Speaker 1: Like your shoes and go wow.
Speaker 3: So you don't like looking at my feet? Uh No,
Speaker 3: I do like your feet.
Speaker 1: Gross, You're a pervert.
Speaker 15: But here's the thing.
Speaker 11: The truth is these companies don't have to take orders
Speaker 11: from China about what to say or how to act,
Speaker 11: but they do it because nobody wants to lose access
Speaker 11: to a billion Chinese customers. It's a powerful incentive, so powerful,
Speaker 11: in fact, that China's influence is affecting how Americans can
Speaker 11: act on American soil.
Speaker 10: Tonight's game between the seventy six ers and China's team,
Speaker 10: the Guanzhou Long Lions, went on as planned as an
Speaker 10: international firestorm hangs over the Wells Fargo Center, and on
Speaker 10: the sidelines, Sam Walks and his wife held Free Hong
Speaker 10: Kong and free hk signs that were confiscated by security
Speaker 10: in the first quarter. Then in the second quarter both
Speaker 10: got kicked out of the game when Walk started yelling
Speaker 10: free Hong Kong. As someone who used to live there,
Speaker 10: he supports the movement.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 11: Fans in Philadelphia got kicked out of a basketball game
Speaker 11: last night for chanting free Hong Kong. And I didn't
Speaker 11: realize that yelling shit at a basketball game was against
Speaker 11: the rules. I mean, that must have been so confusing
Speaker 11: for all the other fans, you know, because this guy
Speaker 11: is there like free Hong Kong, and then the guy
Speaker 11: next to him was probably like, hey, Ben.
Speaker 1: Simmons, Sucker Kartnasciana, and then.
Speaker 11: Securities like you get out, No, not you, No, the
Speaker 11: free Hong Kong guy, you keep going that stuff about
Speaker 11: the kardashion.
Speaker 3: That was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Carry on.
Speaker 11: Next week, billions of people will celebrate the Chinese Lunar
Speaker 11: New Year, but this week in the NBA, one of
Speaker 11: the holiday celebrations did not go as planned. The Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 5: On Monday, the team canceled a planned Lunar New Year
Speaker 5: promotional giveaway celebrating this the Year of the Monkey.
Speaker 11: The monkey shirts were part of the NBA's recognition of
Speaker 11: the Chinese New Year.
Speaker 15: This decision was made after DeMarcus Cousins raised some concerns.
Speaker 10: Cousins apparently said it's insensitive to give out those shirts
Speaker 10: on the same day as the start of Black History Month.
Speaker 11: For more on this story, we turned to senior basketball
Speaker 11: correspondent Ronnie Chang. Everybody, thank you, thank you so, Ronnie,
Speaker 11: I guess the big question was it okay for the
Speaker 11: Sacramento Kings to hand out Year of the Monkey t
Speaker 11: shirts on the first day of Black History Months.
Speaker 5: Look, Trevor, I understand how hundreds of years of institutionalized
Speaker 5: racism might make Black people a little sensitive to this
Speaker 5: kind of thing, right, But obviously this was just an
Speaker 5: unfortunate coincidence. Okay, Chinese people have no beef with Black people, right. Look,
Speaker 5: I know Black History Month is really important to you guys,
Speaker 5: But we started naming years after animals, like five thousand
Speaker 5: years ago. Right, It's a set pattern. Okay, every year
Speaker 5: is a different animal, like I'm in ox, You're an
Speaker 5: ugly rat, Cameraman's a fat pig. Okay, we can't change that.
Speaker 5: It's just science. Like, do you really think back in
Speaker 5: ancient China when they were like drawing up the lunar calendar,
Speaker 5: some old Chinese guy of a long white beard was like,
Speaker 5: oh hah oh, you know what would be all funnier
Speaker 5: if someday there was our sports league for our mostly
Speaker 5: black of people and we are we get our monkey
Speaker 5: T shirts.
Speaker 3: No, that never happened.
Speaker 5: And by the way, every Chinese person talks like that, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's racist.
Speaker 11: Well yeah, but you were you were the one doing though.
Speaker 5: Think about it, Trevor, who was actually offended by this?
Speaker 5: Like one guy, one guy, DeMarcus Cousins. We're really gonna
Speaker 5: listen to DeMarcus Cousins.
Speaker 3: Really, that's the guy. That's the guy.
Speaker 5: This guy, he's been a leader in technical fouls for
Speaker 5: like five seasons in a row. Now, yeah, it's the biggest.
Speaker 15: Cry baby in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Oh, that guy found me. I hate my coach.
Speaker 5: That T shirt us my feelings. You know what should
Speaker 5: hurt your feelings, DeMarcus, your team being in tenth place
Speaker 5: in their conference. All right, now, Look, if Steph Curry
Speaker 5: complains about a monkey T shirt, Look, that's a conversation.
Speaker 11: Why wow, wow, Ronnie, I'm I'm shocked right now, you know,
Speaker 11: a lot about basketball, man were talking about.
Speaker 5: Of course we know about basketball. Chinese people love basketball.
Speaker 5: That's like a million Chinese basketball fans. And not to
Speaker 5: mention countless NBA players of Chinese descent.
Speaker 11: Well not countless, isn't it just Jeremy Lynn?
Speaker 13: Countless players?
Speaker 3: Trevor.
Speaker 5: Okay, Look, the Year of the Monkey happens every twelve years. Okay,
Speaker 5: so we need to fix this right now. Oh, this
Speaker 5: is just gonna keep on offending people.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: And we can't move Chinese New Year because it's based
Speaker 5: on the mood. Okay, there's nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 5: So I suggest you guys just move Black History Month.
Speaker 1: What no, no, no, whoa Runnie, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 11: No, No, we can't just move Black History months.
Speaker 3: Sure you can what you want.
Speaker 5: February anyway, it's like the colders and shortest months.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's missing a day. It's like a bad month. Look,
Speaker 5: I can't believe you guys were suckered into taking February
Speaker 5: in the first place. All right, why don't you take
Speaker 5: something I may it's got thirty one days and there's
Speaker 5: no monkey based holidays. All right, it's beautiful you know.
Speaker 11: Ronnie, I see your suggestion, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 11: count from that happening, Trevor.
Speaker 5: All I'm saying is black people, listen, we're all on
Speaker 5: the same team here. Okay, well, not your enemy. We've
Speaker 5: already proved we can work well together in rush hour.
Speaker 5: Remember that's right.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Chris Tucker.
Speaker 5: And Jackie Chan kicked ass, conformed to racial stereotypes, and
Speaker 5: respected each other's holidays.
Speaker 11: Runnie, don't you ever touch a black man's holiday travel.
Speaker 5: We're not trying to touch your holiday. Okay, do you
Speaker 5: understand the woods that are coming out of my mouth? Oh?
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, that's rush hour. That's what we did.
Speaker 3: It was rush hour.
Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: It's what Russia. I didn't realize I see.
Speaker 5: Bring us together already, it really is.
Speaker 11: That sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Runnie Chang.
Speaker 3: Everyone.
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