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Screw the Chinese government. I stand with Morey and Hong Kong and the NBA should support HOU.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by bmd, Oct 6, 2019.

  1. alcatrazpsycho

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    I am concerned the Rockets were far more dependent on Chinese revenue than most posters here think. It was certainly priced into the team's 1.6B estimated valuation and 2.2B price paid by Tilman.

    Although, if Rockets valuation hits rock-bottom, maybe a Warriors-esq venture capitalist can snatch the team on the cheap and rebuild the Rockets brand much like the Astros did...
     
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    I agree completely with the first sentence.
     
  3. fchowd0311

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    The amount of absurd pushback by the Chinese government over a single tweet should shine a light on anyone who holds doubts about supporting Morey on how absurdly draconian the Chinese government is. They are child like in their pettyness.
     
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    Maybe Morey loves Rockets so much that he bombarded it's value so Tilman goes bankrupt and sells to whoever else
     
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    lol. good one
     
  6. VooDooPope

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    Welcome to the modern world. The US president is the most petty lying child in the world. it seems to be becoming the norm.
     
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    **** China and their social credit system

    I stand with Morey and would be hard to root for rockets if they let him go
     
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    @tinman is finally getting his moment here. Fighting against the guys trolling on here for years. Now the whole country has morphed into LOF.
     
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  10. fchowd0311

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    We can actually vote out the current regime in a year. We can actually talk **** about the current regime and not fear prosecution and detention.

    This is not equivalent.
     
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    Hard for us to know without a look under the covers.

    But I suspect the opposite, honestly. Or, to clarify... it currently is dependent on Chinese revenue, but that's just because its a path they choose decades ago now. Absent that Chinese revenue, it would ultimately just be replaced with other revenue.

    Or, in other words, the Dallas Mavericks probably have similar P&L and a similar enterprise value at the moment. And I NEVER think about a Mavs-China relationship.

    Houston is a huge city with a powerful economy. There is plenty of marketing dollars available.

    But there would no doubt be a COST, even a significant cost, to changing strategy, especially abruptly.

    Personally, I'm happy to see it done. The Chinese lettering "city edition" jersey is embarrassing to Houstonians, imo... as an example.
     
  12. VooDooPope

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    I wasn't trying to create equivalence. I was pointing out childish and pettiness was not restricted to the Chinese government.
     
  13. kanariya

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    I stand with Morey support Hong Kong **** the CCP.
     
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    Listen d******d, we hate the government that is trying to get our GM fired.
     
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  15. fchowd0311

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    That would be you trying to draw an equivalence.
     
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    extremely dumb of morey.
     
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  17. fchowd0311

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    I'm proud of him.
     
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    cool. i know everyone hates China these days.

    just a cursory reading of Chinese history will shine a light on why the PRC protects itself as much as it does. they aren't fooled by a white chauvinist, U.S. state department-backed "democracy" movement.
     
  19. VooDooPope

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    Sorry. There's a difference between similarity and equivalence.
     
  20. fchowd0311

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    Ya and there isn't a similarity here.
     

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