 CHINA -- How is China, the world’s largest basketball-loving nation, taking to theNBA’s ongoing labor strife and the increasinglylikely prospectthat the 2011–2012 season will be cancelled?Not well. On Oct. 24, Guan Weijia, vice-director of the basketball department atTitan Sports, China’s leading sports newspaper, wrote acolumnabout the player lockout in the Beijing News titled, “Everybody is a demon.” In it, he said that NBA CommissionerDavid Sternwas “the demon of all demons and he is Satan who is the King of demons in this labor dispute. |
