Lakers star LeBron James has officially become the first active NBA player to be worth an estimated $1 billion. forbes.
Legendary NBA superstar Michael Jordan also reached the top of a billion dollars, but didn’t achieve that feat until 2014, long after he retired from the league.
But if Jordan had been inclined to aspire to the enormous lucrative power of the world’s leading human rights violator like James, Jordan could have gotten to this point throughout his football career.
It comes from the Los Angeles Lakers, where James plays the huge fortune of just $41 million. As Warner told Breitbart’s Todd Houston, the rest comes from shoe, film and apparel deals, many of which are linked to Nike, one of dozens of international companies linked to China’s slave labor.
As Houston wrote:
Nike has of course invested heavily in the Chinese market and is said to have earned more than $6 billion in China last year alone. And coincidentally, James is one of Nike’s bestsellers in the Chinese market.
Nike is among 83 international companies that directly or indirectly benefit from Chinese slave labor.
“Sports-wise, in addition to his stake in the Boston Red Sox, James also has a stake in English Premier League football team Liverpool,” Houston said. said.
Demonstration against Chinese slave labor. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
While James was willing to speak up and criticize his country at will on all matters of social justice, he remained silent in the face of overwhelming evidence of human rights abuses in China. He even defended his communist philanthropists when given the opportunity.
In 2019, when then-Rockets CEO Daryl Morey dared to support the right to free speech for protesters in Hong Kong, James rushed to Beijing’s defense. He accused Mori of being “uneducated” and added that freedom of speech is at a disadvantage.
LeBron James scolded Daryl Morey for saying Morey was uneducated. He said: “We have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negativity associated with it.” No dear. pic.twitter.com/ZTw6a3FZ5n
– Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 15 October 2019
Unfortunately, since James has proven that selling to totalitarian regimes works, it’s likely that someone else will try to do the same.
Source: Breitbart
