NBA defeated by...300 gutsy fans and a clever activist

If you just arrived on this planet you may not have known that the NBA has been sucking up to China.  Specifically, when a few fans have worn "Free Hong Kong" T-shirts to games, venue security has demanded that they take off the shirts. 

If they refused, security would throw the fans out.  Cuz in the U.S. we gots freedom of speech, right?  Cool, eh?

You may well wonder why the NBA has been sucking up to China.

Ooooh, it's a mystery.

Wait, no it's not.  The execs who run the NBA want China to pay 'em...anything...for the rights to broadcast NBA games in China.  Yay, money!!

So...the execs were scared witless that merely ALLOWING fans to be shown wearing pro-freedom, pro-Hong Kong T-shirts might jeopardize their chances of getting a (relatively paltry) million bucks from the Chinese government.  So they demanded that fans wearing these AWFUL, OFFENSIVE shirts take 'em off.  And if the fans refused, security would remove them from the arena.

Cool, eh?  Just like the government of China!  How...um...well, you fill in your favorite word.

Well...it seems lovers of freedom will find a way to express themselves.  In this case a guy in New York bought 300 tickets to a Nets game...and gave both tickets AND pro-Hong-Kong T-shirts to 300 lovers of freedom.

Guess what happened next.

The owners did a quick calculation and decided that trying to eject all 300 would cause...quite a fight.  So they did...nothing.

Quite a lesson there, eh?

Imagine if ten million Chinese citizens decided they'd had enough of shit-head dictators oppressing 'em.