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gamblor956 on Oct 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV can...

You may overestimate how valuable those billion viewers are, most of them don't have the money to buy anything.

Also, there are a great many cultural and economic reasons that foreign players generally avoid playing in China's existing professional sports league. Political oppression is just one of those reasons.

IllogicalLogic on Oct 14, 2019 [–]

I don't buy that idea, western institutions that we generally think of as unique are quite easy to duplicate in Asia if the focus is put there.

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