LEGAL STRATEGY THAT JOE TSAI, THE NETS, NBA, AND NIKE OWE KYRIE IRVING FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS, DAMAGES
Kyrie Irving forced to make an unqualified apology
As a 50 year, LEGENDARY, pioneering SUPER AGENT/BUSINESS MANAGER/ADVISOR of the Sports and Entertainment Legal Business field, IT IS MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION THAT THERE IS A LEGAL STRATEGY WITH A GREAT POSSIBILITY THAT JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, OWE KYRIE IRVING HIS FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS AND FOR THE DAMAGE TO AND LOSS THEREOF HIS NAME, CREDIBILITY, REPUTATION AND EARNING CAPACITY FOR ENDORSEMENTS, ETC.! THE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE THEMSELVES WITH THE ONEROUS PUNISHMENT FORCED UPON KYRIE FOR THE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIONS THAT HE DID NOT COMMIT AND THE FURTHER PERSECUTION OF IRVING WITH THE IMPOSITION OF THE EXTRA JUDICIAL INHUMANE “SIX CONDITIONS” BY JOE TSAI AND THE NETS WITH COMPLICITY OF THE NBA, THAT HE HAD TO CURE TO OVERCOME HIS BEING “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM”!!
Those steps included a spoken/written apology condemning the film, a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes, sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders, and Nets owner Joe Tsai. The HYPOCRITE NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with his feigned SELF-SERVING, SELF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND OURAGE stepped in and DEMANDED a meeting and an UNQUALIFIED APOLOGY, DENUNCIATION AND CONDEMNATION of the film from Kyrie BEFORE any reinstatement!
Irving issued several written apologies “To All Jewish families and Communities that are hurt and affected from my post, I am deeply sorry to have caused you pain, and I apologize” without outright condemning the film, made a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes, and met with Tsai and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Kyrie apologized when he Did NOT offer an unqualified endorsement and more specifically verbally praise the alleged vile and harmful content contained in the film he allegedly chose to publicize? THOSE ARE ALL JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, UNFORCED ERRORS, INTENTIONALLY WRONGFUL CONCLUSIONS OR OPINIONS!! THE ISSUE WAS Semitic/ANTI-Semitic! KYRIE WAS RIGHT ON THAT!
After their meeting, Tsai said “We spent quality time to understand each other and it’s clear to me that Kyrie does not have any beliefs of hate towards Jewish people or any group”.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he has “no doubt” that Irving is not antisemitic” and “The Nets and Kyrie, together with the NBA and NBPA, are working constructively toward a process of forgiveness, healing and education” the National Basketball Players Association told its members in an email.
Yet Irving was NOT permitted to play!
Tsai tweeted the guard “still has work to do.”
The original suspension by the Nets detailed “We were dismayed today, when given an opportunity in a media session, that Kyrie refused to unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs, nor acknowledge specific hateful material in the film,” the Nets wrote in a statement not attributed to any individual. “This was not the first time he had the opportunity — but failed — to clarify.
“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team. Accordingly, we are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.”
“He has to show people that he’s sorry,”Tsai told The New York Post. “What’s important — and what people miss — is he only apologized after he was suspended.”
Jalen Brown, VP of the National Basketball Players Association called the response from Tsai, “alarming for multiple reasons.”
“We have maintained from the beginning, and will continue to repeat every chance we get, that Kyrie and the Players Association unequivocally condemn antisemitism and all other forms of hate,” the union wrote.
It added, “We continue to make sure that Kyrie’s rights, and the rights of all future players, have been protected at every turn, and look forward very soon to a resolution of all matters satisfactory to all parties.”
Apparently he still had to satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders”.
Kyrie Irving missed the Brooklyn Nets’ six games after the team issued the guard a five-game minimum suspension for his repeated refusal to apologize for posts linking to an alleged antisemitic film.
The suspension continued and Irving was losing $252,000 per game!
Tsai’s DEMANDS that Irving has to “outright condemn the film”, satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders” may be the MOST ONEROUS AND DAMNING EVER IN VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS!
Nets owner Tsai was the face of NBA’s TERRORIZING Kyrie Irving and over one million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities- has financially contributed to the Chinese government’s Human Rights violations in the cultural genocide of the Muslim population, jailing them in barbed-wire camps, sterilizing women, destroying mosques, forced labor, banning religious activities including the Holy month of Ramadan, and forced “re-education” as an Advocate of China’s Communist Regime! KYRIE IRVING IS Muslim! MOST SEMITES ARE MUSLIMS!
Tsai claims Irving is “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM” because he had declined to say he has no antisemitic views in the week since he posted a link on Twitter to a film with alleged hateful claims about Jewish people.
“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team,” the Nets said in a statement.
Irving’s tweet WAS NOT a “TEAM ACTIVITY”, he was acting as an individual without any responsibility nor liability to nor for the team!
The TEAM CAUSED AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE DAMAGE BY THEIR KNEELING DOWN BEFORE AND TO THE JEWISH “ANTI-SEMITIC” KABBALAH MEDIA MACHINERY BULLYING THEM INTO SUBMISSION WITH THEIR ILLEGAL, IRRELIGIOUS DEMANDS!
THE NBA Players Association should have IMMEDIATELY filed a Federal Grievance Complaint and request for arbitration and had the NBA stay ANY and ALL actions by the team until the matter was decided.
The ILLEGAL, IRRELIGIOUS DEMANDS of JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, NOT ONLY
Jack Ma standing, Joe Tsai seated
VIOLATE HIS NBA CONTRACT, it violates the tenets of Kyrie’s own self professed religion of Islam and his being forced to denounce anything that may violate his personal beliefs as well, is just further evidence of TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, belief that they can coerce Kyrie into their form of forced “re-education” as Tsai has with the over one million Uyghur Muslims in China’s Communist Regime!
Under what paragraph in Irving’s contract with the Nets and the NBA/NBAPA Collective Bargaining Agreement allows for these conditions to be LEGALLY imposed upon a player??!!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “outright condemn the film”!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training”!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “meet with the ADL, Jewish leaders”!
THESE DEMANDS ARE IN DIRECT CORRELATION TO TSAI’S COMMUNIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE AND TERRORIZING OF THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF JAILING THEM IN BARBED-WIRE CAMPS, STERILIZING WOMEN, DESTROYING MOSQUES, FORCED LABOR, BANNING ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, AND FORCED “RE-EDUCATION” TO PROGRAM THEM OUT OF ISLAM!!
IT IS APPARENT THAT TSAI AIMS TO FORCE IRVING’S “RE-EDUCATION” TO DEPROGRAM HIM OUT OF HIS ISLAMIC FAITH!!
Here in America, there has been numerous reports of how certain elements of society has attempted to release (someone) from apparent brainwashing, gender/sexual inclinations/deviations, addiction, typically that of a social or religious group/cult, by the systematic re-indoctrination of conventional values!
Additionally, there have been numerous complaints from Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli groups that have found fault with the ADL and certain Jewish leaders that would make meetings with them even MORE PROBLEMATIC and AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS!
IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE CLEAR IN THIS CASE THAT THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF TSAI’S!
KYRIE IRVING IS Muslim and a SEMITE AS ARE MOST MUSLIMS!
It is Tsai that needs to “satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training”!
THIS BRINGS INTO QUESTION AND DEMANDS A RESPONSE FROM TSAI as there HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS, BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF HIS PUBLICLY ADDRESSING, MUCH LESS ISSUING AN APOLOGY, CONDEMNING THE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN CHINA WITH HIS FUNDS AND TECHNOLOGY that many China experts hold him accountable for!
In China, under Tsai’s leadership, Alibaba funded companies that helped China build “an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency,” according to a 2020 congressional report.
Those companies are blacklisted by the U.S. government for supporting a “campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-tech surveillance” through state-of-the-art racial profiling technologies that are being used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the government has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire “re-education” camps, policies that have been described as cultural “genocide” by the United States, several other countries and human rights organizations.
“Joe Tsai has had all the warning in the world about what is happening in Xinjiang, and if he thought it was important to extricate Alibaba, it would have happened,” said Matt Schrader, a China analyst for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democracy around the world. “Joe Tsai is the second-most powerful person at the company.”
On Oct. 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that 28 Chinese organizations — including Megvii and SenseTime, the Alibaba-funded artificial intelligence companies — had been added to the “Entity List,” which imposes trade restrictions on people or institutions engaged in activity “contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”
Surveillance is at the core of China’s efforts to control the Uyghur population, a policy the government says is necessary to stop terrorism and maintain stability. ESPN reported in 2020 that American coaches at an NBA training academy in Xinjiang were surveilled and harassed. One coach said he was detained three times, comparing the atmosphere to “World War II Germany.”
JOE TSAI IS ANTI-SEMITIC!!!
Tsai’s DISGUSTING activities has now brought into play legally compelling responses requiring legal answers to his involvement in the
Sanction China over Uyghur “Genocide”
funding of the Communist Chinese Genocide of Uyghur Muslims, their forced re-education/de-programing, renouncing their illegal Human Rights policy violations, among others, THAT HE AND THE NBA DO NOT WANT TO BE INVESTIGATED, EXPOSED NOR LITIGATED!!
ADAM SILVER SHEKEL HIGHNESS- WHERE IS YOUR SELF-SERVING, SELF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND OURAGE AT ANTI-SEMITE JOE TSAI FUNDING Chinese Genocide OF Uyghur Muslims, jailing them in barbed-wire camps, sterilized women, destroyed mosques, forced labor, banned Holy Ramadan, forced “re-education”!
“Amid growing international condemnation, the [People’s Republic of China (PRC)] continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity” in the Xinjiang region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “The United States reiterates its calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.“
United States and its allies in Canada, Britain and the European Union announced sanctions on several Chinese officials alleged to have links to what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uyghur Muslims. “These actions demonstrate our ongoing commitment to working multilaterally to advance respect for human rights and shining a light on those in the PRC government and [Chinese Communist Party] responsible for these atrocities,“ Blinken said.
U. S. Treasury also added that “Since at least late 2016, repressive tactics have been used by the XPSB against the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minorities in the region, including mass detentions and surveillance.“
Tsai has publicly defended some of China’s most controversial policies. He described the government’s brutal crackdown on dissent as necessary to promote economic growth; defended a law used to imprison scores of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong as necessary to squelch separatism; and, when questioned about human rights, asserted that most of China’s 1.4 billion citizens are “happy about where they are.”
Matt Turpin, the former China director for the National Security Council, said Tsai is “under significant pressure to be seen as doing what Beijing wants him to do. I don’t necessarily fault him. He’s in this impossible position.”
But he said Alibaba’s support of Megvii and SenseTime and human rights abuses were well documented and should give the NBA pause.
“Last I checked, that’s a pretty abysmal thing to be associated with,” Turpin said. “In today’s NBA, I guess it’s not a problem.”
Last December, the U.S. Treasury Department added Megvii, SenseTime and six other Chinese companies to a separate blacklist that prohibits Americans from holding stock in those firms. A department spokesman accused the companies of “actively cooperating with the government’s efforts to repress members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”
Matt Schrader, the China analyst, said Tsai has a choice, ”Joe Tsai could resign,” , “He doesn’t have to do this. He’s a Canadian citizen. He has the freedom to make that choice so long as Alibaba continues to facilitate and participate in a genocide.”
Then Vice President Mike Pence, who later addressed the controversy in a speech, saying: “The NBA is acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of that authoritarian regime.”
Republicans and Democrats in Congress rallied and railed against the NBA. Silver then issued a statement, acknowledging the league’s first comments “left people angered, confused or unclear” and affirmed the NBA’s commitment to free expression. The next day, a bipartisan letter signed by, among others, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said it was “outrageous that the NBA has caved to Chinese government demands for contrition.”
In a statement provided to ESPN, Silver said, “We have always supported and will continue to support every member of the NBA family, including Daryl Morey and Enes Freedom, expressing their personal views on social and political issues.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with Kyrie Irving
The NBA declined to make Silver available for an interview.
“It doesn’t matter if you call him an entrepreneur, a sports owner or a philanthropist, he is channeling the kind of Chinese authoritarianism into the U.S. with a more soft approach that’s quite daunting,” Law said.
ESPN could find no record of Tsai publicly addressing China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang or Alibaba’s funding of companies whose technology was used by the government in the abuses. But many China experts hold him accountable. NBA China is valued at $5 billion. (ESPN owns 5% of NBA China.)
Like all foreign companies, the NBA operates in China at the whim of the Communist Party.
Neither Silver nor anyone from the league office has commented on human rights abuses in China.
AS HE HAS DEMANDED OF IRVING, TSAI MUST ISSUE AN APOLOGY CONDEMNING THE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN CHINA WITH HIS FUNDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DONATING $500 MILLION TO ANTI-ISLAMIC CAUSES, SATISFACTORILY COMPLETING SENSITIVITY AND TRAINING, MEETING WITH ISLAMIC LEADERS AND KYRIE IRVING!
AGAIN, Tsai’s DISGUSTING activities has now brought into play legally compelling responses requiring legal answers to his involvement in the funding of the Communist Chinese Genocide of Uyghur Muslims, their forced re-education/de-programing, renouncing their illegal Human Rights policy violations, among others, THAT HE AND THE NBA DO NOT WANT TO BE INVESTIGATED, EXPOSED NOR LITIGATED!!
AGAIN, IT IS MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION THAT THERE IS A GREAT POSSIBILITY THAT JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, OWE KYRIE IRVING HIS FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS AND FOR THE DAMAGE TO AND LOSS THEREOF HIS NAME, CREDIBILITY, REPUTATION AND EARNING CAPACITY FOR ENDORSEMENTS, ETC.! THE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE THEMSELVES WITH THE ONEROUS PUNISHMENT FORCED UPON KYRIE FOR THE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIONS THAT HE DID NOT COMMIT AND THE FURTHER PERSECUTION OF IRVING WITH THE IMPOSITION OF THE EXTRA JUDICIAL INHUMANE “SIX CONDITIONS” BY JOE TSAI AND THE NETS WITH COMPLICITY OF THE NBA, THAT HE HAD TO CURE TO OVERCOME HIS BEING “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM”!!
Agent Abdul Jalil, and one of the benefits that goes with negotiating $3.3 million contracts
Lyman Bostock was frantic. The bids the free agent had anticipated all season finally were rolling in. A couple of million from the California Angels. A few hundred grand more from the Yankees. A higher bid from San Diego.
Another phone call. The Angels upped the bid to $2.5 million!
“Stop it. Stop it, pleaded Bostock, sounding like a gambler who wants to pull his winnings from the table before the dice roll again”.
The $2 million Bostock wanted had been offered by the Angels, the team the Southern Californian wanted to join.
“Let me sign,” Bostock begged his agent. Somebody else is going to offer me another million and I’ll look like a fool if I don’t take it!”
The agent smiled. With his client’s best interests in mind, he decided not to listen to the man for whom he worked.
Days later, Bostock sat down with the Cowboy, Gene Autry, and wrote his name on a contract with the Angels. For five years of baseball, Bostock would be paid $195,000 annually through 1994. It added up to $3.3 million, the biggest baseball contract ever. The agent, Abdul Jalil, was still smiling.
A dreary weekday morning in downtown Oakland. The young man standing outside the Tribune Building is clad in Levi’s and a leather jacket. He is neat, but his look is not terribly unlike the men who will stand outside bars later tonight, a couple of blocks away, keeping an eye on the girls who work the night shift.
“Agents aren’t our downfall. If anything we’re our own downfall. We can’t blame it on anyone else.”
-Gabe Paul
He could fit in there.
He offers a handshake. Not a soul shake. No shuffling of wrists and palms, just a handshake. The leather jacket falls open, revealing a $4 T- shirt with the R-R symbol of Rolls-Royce painted on. It matches the silver emblem on the $50,000 vehicle parked at the curb. There is another one at home in the garage, for when this one is tied up at the garage.
Abdul Jalil climbs in, ignoring the gawkers. The powder blue machine swings into motion, gliding with the silence of a swinging third strike.
The unavoidable subject of money comes up.
Unlike Lyman Bostock, Jalil relishes making about $195,000 a year.
Something about how that figure works out best on the 1040 form without letting Uncle Sam in on too much of the action. Yes, those 5 and 10 percent commissions on million dollar contracts do add up in a hurry.
“I wanted to be a millionaire by the time I was 30,” says the 28-year-old, blank-faced. “I think I’ll get that by next year.
Abdul Jalil used to be Randy Wallace, back when he was a three-sport athlete at El Cerrito High School. Three sports, that is, as a junior. As a senior he spent a lot of time in the bleachers, watching the teams he had been kicked off.
“I was uncoachable,” he explains, cruising down Telegraph Avenue. “I know it was my fault now”
He was a good athlete, he says, often lamenting that his personality kept him from ever showing it in pro sports. A year later, Wallace entered the University of California and played freshman basketball on a squad that included Phil Chenier. He was mad over not getting enough playing time. Eventually, a choice developed between going to practice or poetry class. Jalil chose to study Homer instead of hoops.
At the same time, Wallace started thinking about a career based around professional sports. Oddly, the one sport he continued to compete in was track, where every four years one guy like Bruce Jenner cashes in while the rest of the stars sneak under the bleachers to accept a free pair of spikes.
His coach at Cal, Dave Maggard, doesn’t remember Jalil’s form in the hurdles as anything special. He has to think twice, three times, before saying he really can’t think of much to say either way about Jalil the athlete.
“But I’ll tell you this,” says Maggard, struck more by the memory of Jalil in street clothes then in sweats. “He was very personable. The guys were attracted to him.
“He has a flare for that kind of thing,” said Maggard, referring to Jalil’s work as an agent. “He’s not afraid to ask. He’s confident. I can see him asking for anything.”
Jalil’s passenger fumbles with the door of the Rolls. The locking mechanism isn’t exactly as familiar as the one on the Ford back at the office.
“Forget it,” says Jalil, also ignoring the fire hydrant he’s pulled up in front of, outside a bank. Inside, a woman executive girds for his approach.
They get down to business. “And I’ve got to have the date for that $100,000 check Denver sent Brian Taylor, And I need $12,000 for Lyman.”
The woman keeps scribbling notes, her eyes rolling as if she’s allergic to zeroes in gangs of three or more. Jalil pockets a wad of bills from a third transaction. The cash and a couple of cashiers checks are treated with the same disregard as the unlocked Rolls outside.
A desk away, the bank president fails at keeping his sideways glance as casual.
“It’s all psychological,” says Jalil, explaining his negotiating style. “Once I figure out the person I’m dealing with, the rest is easy. Sometimes they even give you things you haven’t asked for just because they’ve heard you’re going to ask for them.”
The people he deals with must hate him, or at least be filled with suspicion, right?
Not quite.
Gabe Paul the former New York Yankee general manager who now holds the same post with the Cleveland Indians, has dealt with Jalil. His first reaction is not to speak of outrageous demands or endless sessions at the negotiating table.
“Jalil? He’s a darn good cook.”
Paul enjoys Jalil’s culinary abilities so much he’s arranged for a West Coast business trip just so he can visit the agent’s dinner table again.
The agents aren’t our downfall,” says Paul of baseball’s old guard. “If anything, we’re our own downfall. We can’t blame it on anyone else, We’ve got to recognize the modern era.”
Cedrick Tallows, the new Yankee GM, agrees with his predecessor.
“Jalil leveled with me and I leveled with him” during the negotiations for Bostock. “I don’t think he’s wrecking the game, It’s part of the times. We’re in an inflationary spiral, and not all the players are getting those extraordinary salaries”.
Buzzy Bavasi, who completed the dealing for Bostock at California after Harry Dalton was fired as GM, says simply, “He told me what be wanted. We consummated the deal in five minutes. We shook hands and that was it. Everything was aboveboard. The agents know what they want, and the teams know what they can afford.”
And so does Jalil.
Jalil was quick to recognize the approach of that modern era that Paul, Tallows and Bavasi mention. He prepared for it six years ago, when he enlisted Isaac Curtis as his first client, while both ran track at Cal. When Curtis left Cal for San Diego State, Jalil stepped up his own training, earning a master’s degree in business after graduating at Berkeley.
The days on The Farm were not happy ones.
“I just wanted to get that piece of paper and get out of there,” says Jalil, still bothered by the social structure at Stanford. “Everybody wanted to know everybody for the future, so they could use you later. I didn’t need that. I knew I wouldn’t need them.”
An Atlanta sportswriter once wrote that Junior Moore’s negotiations with the Braves were clouded because the young ballplayer was under the influence of black militancy, through his agent, Abdul Jalil.
Junior, before he played his first major league game, won a contract that allowed him to be a free agent after his rookie season. The Players Association, after a decade of negotiations, won the same right for its members – only after six seasons of major league play. A year later, Moore has a two-year contract for $300,000.
It’s the name explains Jalil, all too aware of the conception most people have of anything associated with the Muslim faith.
I’m an orthodox Muslim. I am not a follower of Elijah Muhammed, I don’t hate white people.”
To back up the statement, he merely walks into his Superstars Management office in San Francisco. There are no statuettes of clenched fists, no memorials to Huey Newton or Malcolm X. There aren’t even any black people, nor is his name on the door.
The offices belong principally to an investments firm to which he directs a lot of the business of his clients. The people in the office all have one thing in common. They are white.
“A lot of people say a lot of that kind of thing about him, or that he’s trying to wreck the game.” rages Bostock. “Just because you’re an orthodox Muslim doesn’t mean you’re racist or militant. Why don’t they ever say Jerry Kapstein and the Jews are trying to wreck the game?”
Lyman Bostock signs RICHEST contract in Baseball History with Angles owner Gene Autry
Lunch at Burnett’s in Oakland, Jalil unquestionably has an ego, and it starts to show itself here.
As his omelette, fried zucchini, milk and orange juice are delivered, he surveys the array of men in three-piece suits, “I think every lawyer in town must come here,” he says, not too impressed. Lawyers seem kind of silly to Jalil. He possesses power of attorney for many of his clients, yet has never attended a day of law school.
He wolfs down the food, relaying biographical information between bites. He talks about his problems with women bothering him, sounding a little too egotistical.
Just then a model-gorgeous woman walks by and hears her name. She pivots on a spiked heel, admits she remembers Jalil’s face, but not his name. It’s a nice act, but loses a little when she asks for his phone number. Twice.
Jalil complies. Then the near-millionaire calls for a doggy bag for his leftover zucchini. Maybe he’s not so egotistical after all.
The day winds up in Jalil’s Oakland apartment, his temporary living quarters while re- modeling work is completed on a home in the Oakland hills.
Before the day is over Junior Moore will call, as will a couple of college players who want advice about transferring schools.
Fritzic V. Allen, a member of the Richmond City Council, will bring by drawings of his city’s marina plan, with hopes Jalil might pass the investment information on to his clients. Eddie Miller, the Harry Ells graduate now with the Braves, and Cleo Smith, when just signed with the Chicago White Sox, drop by to use the sauna.
“How much was the White Sox’ first offer?” Jalil asks Smith, “About $2,900 a month. the rookie answers sheepishly, admitting he wanted to sign for that amount. “And what did the total one-year package end up amounting to?”
Smith seems to get dizzy just thinking about it. He takes a breath and admits he will earn about $95,000 for joining Bill Veeck’s payroll this year.
There are people who don’t like Jalil, make no mistake about that.
Galvin Griffith, owner of the Minnesota Twins, has called Jalil and his ilk a menace to the game. In Denver, where Brian Taylor declared himself a free agent in mid-season under Jalil’s guidance, the Nuggets management doesn’t speak too fondly of the agent.
But they also don’t speak too loudly about him. They are like Bill Lucas, the No. 3 man on the Atlanta Braves’ organizational chart. Lucas was a key man in accepting the history-setting terms of Moore’s contract. He has been hearing about it ever since.
JOE TSAI, THE billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets, made his fortune in China. His company, Alibaba, began in a Hangzhou apartment and has since been described as “Amazon on steroids.” When Tsai bought into the NBA, commissioner Adam Silver predicted he’d be “invaluable” to the league’s expansion in the world’s largest market.
Two and a half years later, Tsai personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which brings in billions of dollars but requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and look past the kind of social justice issues it is fighting at home.
In the United States, Tsai donates hundreds of millions of dollars to combat racism and discrimination. In China, Alibaba, under Tsai’s leadership, partners with companies blacklisted by the U.S. government for supporting a “campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-tech surveillance” through state-of-the-art racial profiling.
Tsai has publicly defended some of China’s most controversial policies. He described the government’s brutal crackdown on dissent as necessary to promote economic growth; defended a law used to imprison scores of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong as necessary to squelch separatism; and, when questioned about human rights, asserted that most of China’s 1.4 billion citizens are “happy about where they are.”
A former college lacrosse player with investments in the WNBA, Major League Soccer and professional lacrosse, Tsai sees himself as a bridge between two increasingly polarized cultures, according to sources close to him who spoke on condition of anonymity. He believes China’s restrictions on personal freedoms have paved the way for economic development that has improved the lives of millions of its citizens.
But his positions and association with companies implicated in human rights abuses have drawn criticism from a bipartisan collection of U.S. officials, human rights activists and academics focused on China.”
Joe Tsai is emblematic of U.S. sports and business figures who are critical of American imperfections, as we all should be, but who make excuses for human rights atrocities committed in China, where he makes money,” said Matt Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser and China specialist in the Trump administration. “We’re going to self-censor or even compliment the policies of a totalitarian dictatorship that’s committing crimes against humanity?”
Tsai declined to be interviewed for this story.
An ESPN examination of Tsai’s record — and the China investments of all 30 NBA teams’ principal owners — shows how the league’s global ambitions come in conflict with its commitment to social justice. In 2019, a pro-democracy tweet by then-Rockets general manager Daryl Morey exposed the political land mines faced by the league as it navigates the tension between value and values.
The NBA still hasn’t recovered from Morey’s now-infamous tweet — an image that read: “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Banned from state TV for most of three seasons and shunned by some sponsors, the league operates under sanctions that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars and “years of goodwill,” an American coach who spent years in China told ESPN.
Within two months of taking control of the Nets, Tsai inserted himself into the controversy. Morey’s supporters believed Tsai was pushing the NBA to fire Morey and offer a full-throated apology, part of a behind-the-scenes drama that reached the White House and has not been previously disclosed. Tsai also published an open letter that accused Morey, inaccurately, of “supporting a separatist movement.”
Both the Nets and the NBA denied that Tsai tried to get Morey fired or that he pushed the NBA to apologize.
ANTI-SEMITE JOE TSAI, an Advocate of China’s Communist Regime Slaughtering Uyghur Muslims!
Later, after Morey saved his job with help from powerful supporters who championed his right to free speech, the Nets quietly refunded Morey’s purchase of a suite for a Rockets game at Barclays Center. Morey believed Tsai had disinvited him, according to a person who was scheduled to attend. A source close to the Nets said Tsai was unaware of the decision, which was related to concerns about possible protests.
Morey declined comment for this story.
Tsai is hardly the only NBA owner heavily exposed in China.
ESPN employed Strategy Risks, a New York-based firm that quantifies corporate exposure in China, to examine the portfolios of 40 principal NBA owners. Heat owner Micky Arison is chairman of Carnival cruise lines, which has a joint venture with a state-owned Chinese shipbuilder facing U.S. government sanctions. Hornets owner Michael Jordan earns millions through Nike’s China business, which makes up 19% of the company’s revenue. Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke owns Arsenal, the first English Premier League club to establish an office in China, and is a partner there — with state-run China Central Television (CCTV) — on one of the most popular soccer programs in the country.
The investments create an awkward dance in which the NBA, owners and players avoid positions on issues they otherwise embrace in the United States. No owner reflects this tension more than Tsai, for whom more than half of his $8.7 billion net worth is linked to China through Alibaba and his ownership of the Nets, according to Strategy Risks. Since Tsai became an owner, the NBA has expanded a long-standing partnership with Alibaba, allowing fans to view content and purchase gear across the company’s platforms.
To a growing degree, sports is a flashpoint in the U.S.-China conflict. The United States led a diplomatic boycott of the recent Winter Olympics in Beijing — an event some critics dubbed the “genocide games.” In December, the Women’s Tennis Association indefinitely suspended play in China to protest the treatment of Peng Shuai, a player who has rarely been seen in public after accusing a high-ranking Chinese official of sexual assault.
For this story, ESPN, assisted by Strategy Risks, reviewed financial data, human rights reports and China’s state-run media, as well as interviewing current and former NBA employees, human rights monitors, U.S. policymakers, academics and others in the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.
Tsai (at right) gave up a $700,000-a-year job to co-found Alibaba with Jack Ma (standing). Tsai incorporated Alibaba, raised capital and became Ma’s right-hand man and alter ego. VCG via Getty ImagesA NATURALIZED CANADIAN citizen, Tsai, 58, was born in Taiwan. His parents fled Mainland China in 1948 during the Communist takeover. His father, Paul Tsai, was the first student from Taiwan to earn an elite J.S.D. degree at Yale Law School; Paul Tsai later returned to Taiwan to start a prominent law practice and serve in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Joe Tsai was sent to the United States at 13, attended a private high school in New Jersey, earned undergraduate and law degrees at Yale and gravitated to a career in private equity. He speaks fluent Mandarin and considers himself Chinese — an ethnic distinction that transcends borders or nationality.
In 1999, Tsai was introduced to Alibaba founder Jack Ma, then working out of a small apartment in the city of Hangzhou. The entrepreneur seemed like a character out of “a Kung Fu novel,” Tsai later recalled, referring to Ma’s charisma. Tsai gave up his $700,000-a-year job to translate Ma’s vision into a legitimate enterprise. Tsai incorporated Alibaba, raised capital and became Ma’s right-hand man and alter ego.
Alibaba developed into the largest ecommerce company in China, with sales surpassing Walmart’s, eventually expanding into logistics, cloud computing, financial services and entertainment. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest on record at the time. Tsai holds 1.4% of Alibaba’s shares, according to the company’s annual report. He is listed by Forbes as the world’s 254th-richest person.
Over the past two years, Alibaba has come under the growing sway of China’s Communist Party, part of a government effort to exert more control over the country’s tech industry. In 2020, the government abruptly canceled a $37 billion IPO for Ant Group, a financial technology spinoff of Alibaba, after Ma publicly criticized banking regulations.
Alibaba is “effectively state-controlled,” according to a recent study on the company by Garnaut Global, an independent research firm that analyzes the Chinese Communist Party structure and China’s technology footprint.
Under Tsai’s leadership, Alibaba funded companies that helped China build “an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency,” according to a 2020 congressional report.
Those technologies have been used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the government has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire “re-education” camps, policies that have been described as cultural “genocide” by the United States, several other countries and human rights organizations.
Human rights groups say companies affiliated with Alibaba have supported government practices in the western region of Xinjiang that are described by some as cultural genocide. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
ESPN could find no record of Tsai publicly addressing China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang or Alibaba’s funding of companies whose technology was used by the government in the abuses. But many China experts hold him accountable.
“Joe Tsai has had all the warning in the world about what is happening in Xinjiang, and if he thought it was important to extricate Alibaba, it would have happened,” said Matt Schrader, a China analyst for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democracy around the world. “Joe Tsai is the second-most powerful person at the company.”
On Oct. 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that 28 Chinese organizations — including Megvii and SenseTime, the Alibaba-funded artificial intelligence companies — had been added to the “Entity List,” which imposes trade restrictions on people or institutions engaged in activity “contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”
In addition to his role as executive vice chairman, Tsai oversaw Alibaba’s investment committee. From 2017 to 2019, Alibaba participated in three major investment rounds for Megvii. In 2018, led by funding from Alibaba, SenseTime raised $620 million, making it the world’s most-valuable AI startup at the time. Alibaba and its affiliated companies currently control 29.4% of Megvii and 7% of SenseTime, according to recent financial documents.
Megvii and SenseTime form half of China’s “AI Dragons,” government-backed companies in the global battle with the United States for artificial intelligence supremacy. The companies promote tools for businesses and the public sector, but their facial recognition technologies have surfaced in connection with China’s ubiquitous surveillance network.
Surveillance is at the core of China’s efforts to control the Uyghur population, a policy the government says is necessary to stop terrorism and maintain stability. ESPN reported in 2020 that American coaches at an NBA training academy in Xinjiang were surveilled and harassed. One coach said he was detained three times, comparing the atmosphere to “World War II Germany.”
The NBA has since ended the academy program, which included two other locations, after an investigation determined “the centers did not meet our NBA standards,” a source familiar with the decision said.
In a 2018 report titled “The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism,” China was identified as the “worst abuser” of internet freedom by Freedom House, a bipartisan nonprofit focused on promoting democracy.”
One of the things that makes [China] distinct is that tech there is designed to meet the standards of government needs,” said Samantha Hoffman, a senior analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), an independent research group.”
There is a type of cooperation between companies that is on the face normal but abnormal in a political context,” Hoffman told ESPN.
In 2019, Hoffman’s group issued a series of reports that linked Megvii, SenseTime and other tech firms to the abuses in Xinjiang. Citing Chinese documents and government reports, the research group said Megvii worked in cooperation with security services, including one instance in which its facial recognition software was used to trigger a “Uyghur alarm” that could be sent to police.
SenseTime, the group concluded, relies on the “largesse of the party-state, particularly its investment in two government projects linked to public security surveillance as well as the surveillance state in Xinjiang that have benefited from an estimated $7.2 billion worth of investment in the past two years.”
Also in 2019, The New York Times and Human Rights Watch both reported that Megvii and SenseTime were among companies that built algorithms enabling the government to track the Uyghur population.
SenseTime is one of two Alibaba-funded companies on the “Entity List,” which imposes trade restrictions on people or institutions engaged in activity “contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.” Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAlibaba became “concerned” after Megvii and SenseTime were placed on the Entity List, a source close to Tsai told ESPN. The company made sure it did not hold board seats in the two companies, was not directly involved in operations and was reassured by company executives that they weren’t targeting Uyghurs. Alibaba chose not to divest because of its responsibility to shareholders, according to the source, who described Alibaba as a “passive investor” in Megvii and SenseTime.
Alibaba’s investments took place before the companies were blacklisted, the source emphasized, adding that numerous U.S. investors also hold stakes in Megvii and SenseTime.
IPVM, a surveillance industry research firm, revealed additional evidence about Megvii and SenseTime in 2020 and 2021, and also reported that an Alibaba website included instructions on how to use software to identify Uyghurs.
Alibaba responded that it was “dismayed” and “never intended for the technology to be used in this manner.” The company also said it had “eliminated any ethnic tag on our product offering.” IPVM confirmed the changes.
Matt Turpin, the former China director for the National Security Council, participated in discussions over which companies to add to the Commerce Department blacklist in 2019. Tsai, he said, is “under significant pressure to be seen as doing what Beijing wants him to do. I don’t necessarily fault him. He’s in this impossible position.”
But he said Alibaba’s support of Megvii and SenseTime and human rights abuses were well documented and should give the NBA pause.”
Last I checked, that’s a pretty abysmal thing to be associated with,” Turpin said. “In today’s NBA, I guess it’s not a problem.”
Last December, the U.S. Treasury Department added Megvii, SenseTime and six other Chinese companies to a separate blacklist that prohibits Americans from holding stock in those firms. A department spokesman accused the companies of “actively cooperating with the government’s efforts to repress members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”
Schrader, the China analyst, agreed that Tsai is in a difficult position because of Alibaba’s dependence on the government. But he said Tsai has a choice.”
Joe Tsai could resign,” Schrader said. “He doesn’t have to do this. He’s a Canadian citizen. He has the freedom to make that choice so long as Alibaba continues to facilitate and participate in a genocide.”
In addition to the Nets, Tsai owns the WNBA’s New York Liberty and a professional lacrosse team, among other sports holdings. Visual China Group via Getty ImagesTOTING A STACK of highlight reels to present to Chinese television executives, former commissioner David Stern introduced the NBA to the country in the late 1980s. Today, NBA China is valued at $5 billion. (ESPN owns 5% of NBA China.)
Like all foreign companies, the NBA operates in China at the whim of the Communist Party. “It’s not like the U.S., where regulatory bodies issue a warning or sue you, you hire a bunch of lawyers and defend yourself,” said Victor Shih, an expert on China’s corporate economy at University of California, San Diego.”
They can shut you down overnight,” Shih said. “The Chinese Communist Party creates the pressure on businesses and businessmen with a lot of exposure in China. It becomes very difficult for these people to navigate.”
Neither Silver nor anyone from the league office has commented on human rights abuses in China. When the league closed a training academy in Xinjiang two years ago, NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum repeatedly declined to say whether the move was related to human rights concerns there.
The NBA is far from unique. Numerous businesses have tried to capitalize on the immense Chinese market, only to be accused of selling out American values. That includes Disney, ESPN’s parent company, which faced criticism from human rights activists after filming part of the 2020 live-action remake of “Mulan” in Xinjiang. Last year, when Disney launched its streaming service in Hong Kong, the company did not include an episode of “The Simpsons” critical of the Chinese government.
Since 2016, ESPN has had a content-sharing partnership with Tencent, the technology giant that streams NBA games in China. After the Morey tweet, the Rockets, then the league’s most popular team in China, disappeared from Tencent. When Morey left Houston to become president of basketball operations in Philadelphia, the 76ers soon followed. Earlier this year, after then-Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom called China President Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator,” Boston games were taken off Tencent.
Two weeks ago, regular-season NBA games appeared again on CCTV for the first time since the Morey tweet. The government-owned Global Times reported the network would now show fewer games and outside guest commentators no longer would be invited to work the broadcasts.”
The Chinese Communist Party has mastered the art of squeezing, or threatening to squeeze, the interests of elites, like NBA owners and players,” Turpin said. “All of this is a calculated influence campaign that has been underway for years, which uses the self-interest of business, entertainment, academic, political and cultural elites to get them to shape broader public perceptions of the regime in Beijing.”
Tsai, shown here with Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry last year, played a key role in the controversy that followed a tweet by former Rockets GM Daryl Morey. Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesIN 2018, TSAI purchased a 49% interest in the Nets from Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Six months later, Silver announced that Tsai would join the board of NBA China, a separate entity with offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
The following spring, the NBA expanded a partnership with Alibaba to create an “NBA Section” across the company’s platforms; the deal gave Alibaba’s 700 million users one-stop shopping to view NBA highlights and other content and to purchase gear.
That fall, Tsai took full control of the Nets. He paid $2.35 billion, the highest price for a U.S. sports franchise at the time. He also owns the WNBA’s New York Liberty and a professional lacrosse team, and he has stakes in another professional lacrosse team, a lacrosse league, eSports and Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC.”
The NBA needed more of a foothold in China, and Alibaba is one of the largest, most powerful companies in that nation,” said Chris Fenton, a businessman who serves on the board of the U.S.-Asia Institute and has written extensively about the tradeoffs of doing business in China. “The NBA had to be thinking, ‘Holy cow, if we can get this guy in the league, it would make us awesome in China.'”
Two months after Tsai became sole owner of the Nets, Morey sent his tweet.
A former data analyst at MITRE, the federally funded research and development corporation, Morey had friends involved in the Hong Kong protests, the latest of which had followed a Chinese prohibition on masks to prevent protestors from shielding their identities.
Tsai was preparing to leave for China to attend exhibition games there when Morey tweeted. He was soon contacted by deputy commissioner Mark Tatum, who told him the tweet had provoked significant anger in China. Tsai thought he could play the “middle man,” a source close to him said. He drafted a letter and sent it to Tatum, who oversees international operations. Tsai received no response and posted it on Facebook from his private plane.
Tsai described the message as an “open letter to all NBA fans.” He invoked Chinese history to explain why “the Daryl Morey tweet is so damaging” and vowed to “help the League to move on from this incident.” He indicated that Morey had supported a separatist movement, a bitter point of contention for Morey and his supporters, who saw the protests as a fight for democracy.
As the issue raged on social media in both countries, senior NBA officials braced for China’s response. Silver was in Japan, about to travel to Shanghai; some worried the commissioner might be detained or that the government would shut down the games before tipoff. “We had contingencies for everything,” said a former senior NBA executive in Asia who asked to remain anonymous because the conversations were confidential.
The NBA, in its first statement, acknowledged that Morey’s tweet had “deeply offended” fans in China and called that “regrettable.” The league also noted its support for individuals “sharing their views.”
Even before the controversy, the NBA had begun to consider contingencies in the event a player spoke out about human rights. Inside the Hong Kong office, the tense political climate was creating divisions, and NBA officials worried about safety. The league studied how other foreign companies had saved their businesses by issuing apologies for offending China.”
It was, ‘These are some examples of what other companies have been doing,'” one NBA source familiar with the debate told ESPN. “I don’t think it ever got to the point where it was, ‘This is going to be our position.'”
Suddenly it was reality. To many NBA officials and league executives, the response was obvious: The league would have to fire Morey and issue a public apology.
Morey heard directly from at least one NBA owner that Tsai was pushing to fire him to appease the Chinese. Turpin volunteered to help Morey and quickly became convinced that the Rockets’ general manager was fighting not only the Chinese government but also Tsai.”
My impression of Joe Tsai’s role in this was that it was extremely unhelpful,” Turpin said. “He was laying out to the other owners how completely unacceptable it was that anyone weigh in on Hong Kong. It colored the way the rest of the league lined up against Daryl.”
The Nets strongly denied that Tsai intervened.”
Joe Tsai did not speak to any owners about Mr. Morey after the tweet and it’s absolutely false that he advocated for anything to happen to Morey,” Mandy Gutmann, a Nets spokesperson, wrote in an email. “Only the Rockets make personnel decisions about their team.”
Mike Bass, the NBA’s chief communications officer and executive vice president, said Tsai “never asked or intimated to the league office that Daryl Morey should be fired or that we should apologize.”
Regardless, the NBA’s stated principles were butting up against the realities of doing business in China. “I think the NBA was caught with its feet in two boats, and both were separating,” Fenton said.
In Shanghai, Tsai worried the government would cancel the games, the source close to him said. He asked his Alibaba co-founder, Jack Ma, to contact city officials to let the exhibitions continue. Ma was successful. Meanwhile, LeBron James, whose new movie “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” was in production, raged to players about Morey during a meeting in China at a Ritz-Carlton, according to a source familiar with the meeting. (After returning to the U.S., James said Morey was “misinformed” in his opinion about Hong Kong.)
With the Rockets pushing for an apology and powerful figures like Tsai and James aligned against him, Morey scrambled to save his career. He deleted the tweet soon after it was posted and later tweeted, “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China. … My tweets are my own and in no way represent the Rockets or the NBA.”
Morey spoke with current and former White House officials, a Democratic governor and others who rallied around him. Turpin worked Congress and the White House to push back.”
I wanted to make it clear to the NBA that there was a broader aspect and costs to the U.S. to being seen as caving in,” Turpin said.
Pottinger, then deputy national security adviser specializing in China, said the White House “knew we had to put a marker down somehow. I remember many of us at the White House saying this is really bad precedent. We don’t want American businesses abandoning values in order to abide by Chinese censorship.”
Pottinger said he spoke directly with then-Vice President Mike Pence, who later addressed the controversy in a speech, saying: “The NBA is acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of that authoritarian regime.”
Republicans and Democrats in Congress rallied behind Morey and railed against the NBA. Silver then issued a statement, acknowledging the league’s first comments “left people angered, confused or unclear” and affirmed the NBA’s commitment to free expression. The next day, a bipartisan letter signed by, among others, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said it was “outrageous that the NBA has caved to Chinese government demands for contrition.
Morey, who believed he’d be forced to resign, stayed with the Rockets for another year before joining the Sixers.
In a recent statement provided to ESPN, Silver said, “We have always supported and will continue to support every member of the NBA family, including Daryl Morey and Enes Freedom, expressing their personal views on social and political issues.”
The NBA declined to make Silver available for an interview.
Shih, the scholar who studies Chinese elites and finance, said the Communist Party essentially has a playbook for events in which China comes under attack: All government workers and major business people are expected to stand with the party.”
So over the years, I’m sure business people like Joe Tsai have learned this expectation,” Shih said. “That’s not like a decree. It’s just over time you learn to say, ‘Oh, everyone’s doing this. When there’s negative publicity event, now I know the norm of what I’m supposed to do.'”
Seven months after the tweet, with little fanfare, the NBA changed leadership in China. With COVID-19 spreading, Derek Chang, who had been CEO for just over a year, resigned to join his family in London. He was replaced by Michael Ma, a Chinese national whose father, Ma Guoli, helped launch China’s first national sports channel, completed the first TV deal with the NBA and went on to become chief operating officer of broadcasting for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Shih said the move made sense: “You hire someone like that with a lot of connections, they can call up their friends who are still in government and say, ‘Look, this was purely an accident. What can we do to make it OK for all the different stakeholders?'”
The league said the decision was based on Ma’s qualifications.
“Michael Ma worked at the NBA for more than a decade and helped launch NBA China in 2008 before leaving the NBA in 2016 and ultimately becoming CEO of Endeavor China,” said Bass, the NBA spokesman. “When Derek Chang resigned from his position in May of 2020, Michael’s experience in building and managing global brands, combined with his familiarity with the NBA from his prior decade-plus stint with the league, made him uniquely suited to lead our basketball and business development initiatives in China.”
Tsai, shown at a WNBA exhibition game against China in 2019, believes much of the criticism he receives is politically motivated by people who purposely distort his views, according to sources close to him. AP Photo/Mary AltafferTWO WEEKS AFTER Tsai’s Facebook post, hundreds of protesters attended a Nets game wearing black “STAND WITH HONG KONG” T-shirts.
The protestors included Nathan Law, a pro-democracy activist who, at 23, won a seat in Hong Kong’s legislature in 2016. At his swearing-in, Law protested the oath of allegiance to China, adding “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” His seat was revoked; the next year he was briefly jailed. Last spring, he was granted political asylum in England.
Law told ESPN that Tsai has “become like a spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party, which he is in disguise of.””
It doesn’t matter if you call him an entrepreneur, a sports owner or a philanthropist, he is channeling the kind of Chinese authoritarianism into the U.S. with a more soft approach that’s quite daunting,” Law said.
Tsai believes much of the criticism he receives is politically motivated by people who purposely distort his views, according to sources close to him. He supports personal freedoms but believes they can get in the way of stability that fosters economic growth and improves people’s lives. He likes to point out that China is still underdeveloped, with a per capita income ($10,435, according to the World Bank) far behind that of the United States ($63,593), and that living outside of poverty is itself a human right.”
It’s a cost-benefit [analysis],” the source said of Tsai’s views. “If you’re running a country of 1.4 billion people, you have to make a tradeoff between everything that’s just free and running amok versus bettering people’s lives over time.”
Like the NBA, Tsai has championed social justice in the United States.
Tsai and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to social justice initiatives and academia. After George Floyd’s murder, the couple committed $50 million to create the Social Justice Fund, a racial justice and economic recovery initiative in Brooklyn. Last May, Tsai and others raised $250 million in response to hate crimes against Asians during COVID. The Tsais donated thousands of masks and ventilators to New York when the city was the epicenter of the pandemic.
“Fortunately, I came here when I was relatively young, I spent most of my formative years in the United States, so I think I understand Americans,” Tsai said during a 2019 discussion at the University of California, San Diego’s 21st Century China Center. “I’ve involved myself a lot in sports, which is a very big part in America, so I feel quite fortunate in that I can have both perspectives and can be balanced about it.”
Tsai has taken a different view on civil liberties in China. During the 2019 forum in San Diego, he was asked about China’s crackdown on academic freedoms.”
It is what it is,” he responded. “The fact is, China today is a single-party system so there’s going to be restrictions on academic freedoms and freedom of expression. I mean, do people like that? I think most people don’t like it, but I think that’s how the Communist Party needs to control that in order to feel confident about pushing their policies in other areas.”
The single-party system is in place because the elite in China feel that China is still a developing country, and I talked about two broader goals: to make sure that the population is wealthier and doing better and also to restore this sense of renaissance and pride about Chinese culture. They feel that dissent has to take a backseat and whatever they’re doing is right.”
In 2018, during a panel discussion at the Milken Institute, Tsai said stifling democratic freedoms was necessary for China to develop its economy.
“You need to understand that it is important for the Communist government that there’s absolute stability in the country,” Tsai said. “In the American context, we talk about freedom of speech, freedom of press, but in the China context, being able to restrict some of those freedoms is an important element to keep the stability.”
In 2015, Alibaba paid $266 million to buy the South China Morning Post, the most prominent English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. In a letter to readers, Tsai insisted Alibaba wouldn’t compromise the newspaper’s editorial independence but made it clear the paper would provide a perspective on China missing from coverage by the Western media. “We see things differently, we believe things should be presented as they are,” Tsai said in an interview with the paper. He explained that one of the main reasons Alibaba bought the paper was “to tell the biggest story of our lifetime, which is China.”
A 2020 story in The Atlantic, headlined, “A Newsroom At the Edge of Autocracy,” detailed how editors at the paper had recast language in a story about the Hong Kong protests to show protesters in a more negative and aggressive light. The magazine cited sources as saying the changes “exemplified the heavy-handed, slanted editing that became common” at the paper during the demonstrations.
Neither Tsai nor anyone from Alibaba has attempted to shape the paper’s editorial policy, a source close to Tsai said.
Last year, during an interview with CNBC, Tsai defended Hong Kong’s 2020 National Security Law, under which authorities have detained at least 150 pro-democracy activists, academics, lawyers and journalists. The United States and other countries have imposed economic sanctions in response.
Tsai, who lists his business address as Hong Kong and maintains a residence there, pressed his argument during the Morey crisis that the crackdown was necessary to preserve stability and defend China against separatism.
“What is this for? It’s against sedition,” Tsai said. “It’s against people that advocate splitting Hong Kong as a separate country. I want to make sure that we prevent foreign powers from carving up our territories. I think Hong Kong should be seen in that context.”
Tsai’s views on Hong Kong stem from his personal experiences there, said the source close to him. He witnessed “rioters storming the Hong Kong legislature, vandalizing property and defacing the Chinese flag,” the source said. Tsai also was aware of protesters attacking Mandarin speakers, and he felt physically threatened, the source said. Tsai believes that the image of peaceful protestors simply seeking more freedoms is a false narrative created in the West, the source said.
In the CNBC interview, asked to comment on China’s human rights issues, Tsai said, “You have to be specific on what human rights abuse you’re talking about because the China that I see, the large number of the population — I’m talking about 80-90% of the population — are very, very happy for the fact that their lives are improving every year.”
Tsai’s response was widely circulated on Chinese social media, where he was credited with taking a controversial topic and turning it into “positive PR.” Some referred to the interview as Tsai’s “shining moment.”
Tsai’s assertion that the Hong Kong protests are an independence movement is disputed by many activists and China experts who seek to hold China to promises for free elections and assembly, among other rights.
“His hinting that the uprising in Hong Kong is because of foreign powers is completely false,” Law said. “Hong Kong people have their own demands. They want democracy.”
Tsai is convinced that “self-determination for Hong Kong” is part of Law’s “manifesto,” according to a source close to Tsai.
Jerome Cohen, a professor emeritus at New York University School of Law who spent decades representing American companies in China and who was a classmate of Tsai’s father at Yale Law School, said Tsai is presenting a “somewhat distorted picture.”
Cohen said he appeared as part of a series of panel discussions at Yale in 2016, when Tsai donated $30 million and the school’s China Center was renamed to honor his dad. “I thought I’d be mischievous and pointed out that Yale Law School seemed to be a very dangerous place for people from China. I named six or seven scholars, great people who had spent time at Yale Law School, and after leaving they got locked up in China.”
Cohen said Tsai downplayed concerns about “human rights in China” in a subsequent panel.
Cohen said he wasn’t surprised: “I already anticipated what the argument would be from somebody who had just made billions of dollars on the Mainland.”ESPN’s John Mastroberardino contributed to this report.
U.S., allies announce sanctions on China over Uyghur ‘genocide’
The Biden administration is working with Canada and Europe to put human rights pressure on Beijing.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media after a closed-door morning session of US-China talks in Anchorage, Alaska on March 19. | Frederic J. Brown/Pool via AP
The United States and its allies in Canada, Britain and the European Union on Monday announced sanctions on several Chinese officials alleged to have links to what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uyghur Muslims.
The international, coordinated sanctions, first reported by POLITICO, drew condemnation and some immediate retaliatory sanctions from Beijing. The moves offered a glimpse into the growing divide between China and the United States and its trans-Atlantic allies, which, like Washington, are increasingly wary of China’s global ambitions and internal repression.
The sanctions are an opportunity for the Biden administration to justify its emphasis on working with allies, one major aspect of its foreign policy that it says distinguishes it from the administration of former President Donald Trump. The sanctions also come after a tense high-level meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Alaska.
“Amid growing international condemnation, the [People’s Republic of China] continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity” in the Xinjiang region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “The United States reiterates its calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.“
Blinken, who is in Europe this week visiting counterparts, noted that the U.K., Canada and the EU were also imposing various sanctions. “These actions demonstrate our ongoing commitment to working multilaterally to advance respect for human rights and shining a light on those in the PRC government and [Chinese Communist Party] responsible for these atrocities,“ Blinken said.
The U.S. sanctions targeted two individuals: Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, theXPCC is a paramilitary organization that “enhances internal control over the region by advancing China’s vision of economic development in [Xinjiang] that emphasizes subordination to central planning and resource extraction.“
Treasury also added that “Since at least late 2016, repressive tactics have been used by the XPSB against the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minorities in the region, including mass detentions and surveillance.“
Both the XPSB and the XPCC have already been sanctioned by the United States. Wang and Chen are being sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act, which means assets they may have in the U.S. are frozen and Americans cannot do business with them.
It’s hard to say exactly how much financial damage the new sanctions will do, but given the coordination with Europe, Britain and Canada, it packs a symbolic punch.
The EU sanctions were believed to be the first from the bloc to target China on human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
The U.K. imposed sanctions on four individuals and one entity, including the two individuals sanctions by the United States.
Canada, meanwhile, announced it is imposing sanctions on the same four individuals and one entity. The Canadian sanctions come at an unusually sensitive time: China has put on trial two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on espionage charges. The men‘s supporters say they have been detained in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a Chinese telecom executive.
Based on the various statements issued, it appeared that the United States had earlier sanctioned some of the people and entities its allies were targeting Monday.
Blinken was among the U.S. officials who met with top Chinese officials in Anchorage last week. The meeting began with harsh words from both sides, with Blinken warning the Chinese that the U.S. did not see its human rights abuses in places like Xinjiang as merely internal matters but rather as threats to the rules-based international order.
Shortly before the Alaska meeting, the United States announced a series of sanctions on 24 officialsit linked to China’s crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. Chinese officials pointed to those sanctions as setting a bad tone for the Alaska meeting, which was the first high-level gathering between Chinese diplomats and aides to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation (AMWF), since 1957, is a non-profit, public services organization based on GIVING AND SHARING, is non-denominational, Multi-Cultural, 100% volunteer financed and operated relief organization that provides FREE charitable assistance to the general public with food, medicine, clothing, educational and employment opportunities, mental and physical health referrals, legal aid, shelter and other necessities to individuals, children, families, and organizations who lack these essentials for any reason. We provide private school and college admissions educational opportunities; assists with referrals for job training and placement; rental assistance; social services assistance; homelessness assistance; mental and physical health assistance; medical assistance and legal aid assistance referrals FREE for ANYONE whom has the need. In serving the above, our leadership and volunteer/donors are most importantly composed of the same fabric, Blacks, minorities, single mothers, widows, immigrants/refugees, the poor, homeless, needy!
AMWF has taken the lead in servicing and protecting the poor, homeless, and senoir shut-in residents from COVID-19 extending these various services and programs to the economically, mentally, and physically challenged; the poor and homeless; the undereducated and undeserved; people living with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; substance abuse; seniors 55 years and older; prenatal women; at risk youth; and homebound people living with serious illness!
We are and have been heavily involved in the Homeless servicing since the 1970’s that suddenly the government needs to address as a potential Deadly agent of the spread of the virus. Providing food IS AN ESSENTIAL service, so we are used for that purpose, we added new food resource donors, we MUST be out to serve and our work has TRIPLED!
Our Food Bank programs and weekly Free Farmers Market Food Give-Aways enable us to serve over 30,000 people a month from many Bay Area Community locations and provide for thousands with the special events we support that are totally free to the public. AMWF accommodate over 300 families per giveaway at each location with twice the quantity, a higher quality, much healthier, more expensive and fresher product that was purely the blessings of God. Our distribution includes daily fresh natural health foods, Halal, Organic, All Natural, Kosher, Vegan, specialty products, farm-fresh produce, high quality all-natural meats and seafood. We have fresh, natural organic products; a great mix of everyday staples; healthy canned goods; fresh fruits and vegetables; gourmet deli meats and products; eggs, dairy and cheeses products; high quality organic, all natural and grass fed meat, fish and poultry; baby foods; dry and canned goods; frozen natural and organic prepared meals and specialty items; natural body care and personal hygiene products; vitamins and supplements; gluten-free products; vegan and vegetarian products; bakery products; bulk food products; options for those with food sensitivities, and much more. This has more greatly enhance our business model as tantamount and concordant with our program and success!
WE STAND ON OUR MOTTO OF “WE SAVE OUR CLIENTS A TRIP TO THE MARKET AND THE COSTS OF THE HEALTHY, FRESH FOOD ITEMS THEY RECEIVE!” and YOU can assist us in providing even better products for those less fortunate immediately!
We serve the indigent, homeless, needy, under privileged, disadvantaged, disabled persons, underserved, children, many in the Autism Spectrum and other afflictions. We conduct outreach to those living on the streets and offer benefits such as medical and mental health services, substance abuse treatment, social and psychological services, educational support to facilitate homeless student’s transition to school, transitional housing opportunities, and, eventually, permanent housing. We are serving our clients with mobile hot spot access to complete the necessary forms for service to those chronic homeless and those that do not have internet access to get them off the streets and rally support and create stabilized, lasting solutions.
We have massive list of clients that we communicate with daily through the same means that we now provide referrals, mail, email, phone, text and voice mail message service with and for our clients.
By way of our global accessible services, we have pioneered new, disruptive healing solutions that take advantage of each of our unique assets to rally our clients in support of our donors charitable causes.
We leverage private, corporate and foundation money, contacts, influence and in-kind contributions, as we engage and increase the collaborative involvement of our clients, the general public, business, non-profit community, and justice system forging a bond to work together to create solutions to improve the system of social interaction, personal treatment and health care by creating opportunities for collaboration and sharing of best practices among those invested in the improvement of homeless community to support and augment our efforts to reduce the barriers, to increase options and build service capacity for homeless benefits.
We engage our partners to provide other services that include tenant/landlord disputes, problems with food stamps and General Assistance, applying for SSI/SSDI disability benefits, immigration issues, arrest warrants & family law, towed cars, replacing lost IDs and other documents; additionally HAP social service volunteers and staff provide referrals for shelters, rehab programs and other social services benefits to which they are entitled.
The donations facilitate our efforts to fulfill our crucial financial and technical support needs that enables us to pursue our mission to also provide our services at no charge to other nonprofits and donors alike.
We have hundreds of daily uniquely distinctive, necessitous, and discrete web visitors to video chat, online chat, text, phone, email, and voice mail messages, to obtain precise information designed to relieve their concerns with confidential information and real help with specific performance in the form of any type of the most effective remedy in protecting the expectation interest of the clients. We are able to notice and communicate with 1,000’s via text message at a moments notice!
AMWF extends these various services and programs to the economically, mentally, and physically challenged; the poor and homeless; the undereducated and undeserved; people living with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; substance abuse; seniors 55 years and older; prenatal women; at risk youth; and homebound people living with serious illness.
We provide FREE groceries, clothing, shoes, hygiene kits, sleeping bags, blankets, medicine, and hot chef’s prepared gourmet meals to the homeless and homeless encampments and habitations of ALL kinds, from the streets to parks, from trees and bushes to alleys, from corners to ditches, from hand built shanties to tents under freeway overpasses!
We provide FREE groceries, bagged and hot chef’s prepared gourmet meals, plus the above, to the Oakland Safe Parking Program and the CAREavan Safe Parking Programs, among others, at local senior and community centers, and faith based organizations in an effort to provide families and/or individuals who have been displaced and are temporarily homeless, living in their vehicles and need a safe place to park and sleep overnight, with restrooms and an attendant present throughout the night at all of the locations.
We also provide food to those that had previously obtained necessary items at their Senior Center. But now that they’re closed are vital to the wellness of the community and senior population with our Food Bank program and Free Farmers Market Food Give-Aways.
The obvious challenge is firstly, THE WILL and DESIRE to address the needs of this segment of society! Then the allocated resources, including PEOPLE! One thing we’ve expierenced is a capacity challenge in terms of direct field workers whom have direct, first hand contact with those in need and followed by staffing. We have to ensure client safety as well as the safety of the food handlers, distributors, and drivers, so the food and meals are placed on tables, in boxes, at “doorsteps” and not handed to clients directly. We had a shortage before, and so scaling that is difficult to provide safer options during the COVID-19 pandemic, as most of these folks are already isolated in their prefered encampment but needs to serve three critical public health purposes:
1) Prioritize individuals experiencing homelessness who are asymptomatic, but are at high risk, such as people over 65 or who have certain underlying health conditions, and address their needs where they can more safely self-isolate even if it’s in their prefered encampment;
2) Provide isolation capacity, even in their prefered encampment, for individuals experiencing homelessness who have been exposed to COVID-19 (as documented by a state or local public health official, or medical health professional) that do not require hospitalization, but need isolation or quarantine even if in their prefered encampment; and
3) Provide isolation capacity for individuals experiencing homelessness who are COVID-19 positive, but who don’t need hospitalization. Their only choice is to return to a less regulated congregate shelter setting or back to their prefered encampment– both of which would lead to further spread of COVID-19.
Our team members, and the people we serve are of different race, faith, culture, age, gender, sexual orientation and income levels. AMWF by providing direct services, including providing nutritious food; edvocating for and participating in many relevant social service programs that promote the self-sufficiency of people in need; educating the general public about these issues, their causes and this partial solution while inspiring a consummate social conscience and honoring the dignity of every person. As part of that principal mission, AMWF works for basic economic survival security for all and the elimination of poverty by providing these services thus effecting societal and governmental policies that regulate the less fortunate to the bottom of the economic, social, health, and opportunity pyramid, with full understanding that any policy which affects the poorest of us affects all of us.
We provide essential services to many inter-faith based organizations with the aim of bettering the condition of the less fortunate. In that spirit of outreach, we have supplied many Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Disabled, Unabled, multi-cultural, inter-faith based businesses and organizations with staples that are in turn distributed to the public, and these events are NOT only fundraisers, BUT MOST are totally free to the public, there is no charge for anything to anyone.
AMWF features high-performing results in the invaluable areas of: youth development; elementary, secondary and college education; poverty alleviation; mental and physical health medical services; social services, as well as other economic-empowerment programs for individuals, families; and small businesses.
AMWF has forged an awareness and sustained an effort to connect those in dire need with service providers, donors, volunteers and nonprofit groups with these causes. We have taken community foundations and moved into social networking, reaching beyond static “bricks and mortar” to interactive Web sites to serve as a “dynamic virtual clearinghouses or town square” that holds conversations between those in NEED and their local charities, citizens, donors, and volunteers.
WE ARE and HAVE BEEN since 1970’s a Furtile Oasis in a Barren Food Desert serving those MOST in NEED!
FaceBook Fundrazr AMWF has a 100% donation policy, and we are transparent about how we use donations. May Allah (swt) bless you for your Zakat, Sadaqah and Sadaqah Jariya donations, iA!
You can view the AARON & MARGARET WALLACE FOUNDATION, (AMWF) video of Imam Zaid Shakir and the Lighthouse Mosque of Oakland, Ca., https://youtu.be/Ez8Wse1ghXU
Berkeley Masjid in Berkeley, Ca, iA, at:
Noor Islamic & Cultural Community Center at:
the CALIFA’s – (Center for Advance Learning Improving Family Awareness) Vallejo, CA at: https://youtu.be/MVXeno23U9I
Muslimas Free Food Giveaway at Masjid al-Islam at:
Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation Free Food Program Celebrity Giving Back. The Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation really catered to everyone Saturday, August 6, 2011 at the “Oakland’s Got Talent” event at DeFermery Park. We distributed $25,000 worth of groceries FREE to ALL that came, “Fresh Start” Backpack Giveaway with 5,000 FREE Backpacks filled with school supplies, haircuts, manicures, health services, picnic Bar-B-Q lunch, games, entertainment, etc.
The second one is Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation Kids Celebrity Gift Back Packs.
You can view the following Santa Fe Elementary School’s Peace March with Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation, SemiFreddi’s, Trader Joe’s, Little Ceasar’s Pizza, Marshawn Lynch’s “Fam1ly F1rst” and Leon Powe’s “Fresh Start Oakland”:
Santa Fe Elementary School’s Peace March with Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation
Santa Fe Elementary Little Caesars Pizza Part 1
Santa Fe Elementary Little Caesars Pizza Part 2
Here’s the ABC-TV broadcast of our “Community Movement Toward Improvement” Music Conference in Oakland, California featuring MC Hammer, Martin Wyatt-KGO TV, Mohammed (MTV Real World-SF), Sway, Imani, Davey D, Raphael Saadiq- Tony Toni Tone, Greg Khalid Peck- Warner Bros,Karen Lee- Warner Bros Music, Eric B, Rico Cassanova, Abdul-Jalil,Tony Collins- Giant Records, Anita Greathouse-Knight, Gene Shelton, Lenny Williams,Thembisa Mshaka, Roy Tesfaye-Death Row Records shown in ABC-TV news clip.
Here’s the “I Know You’ll Love Oakland” Commercial for the City of Oakland Image Campaign.
Here’s Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson’s City Urban Economic Development Conference Commercial:
Here’s the link to the YouTube video from radio station KPFA’s July 17, 2010 broadcast with Tom Frainier, a Haas boardmember and owner of SemiFreddis; with Cal Haas Business School student Gian “G” Pepe of Pepe International/Little Napoli Resturant/Carmel Bakery discussing Haas School of Business, the Y.E.A.H. Program, The Bread Project and giving back to the community. The video includes lots of good stuff on the Bread Project with some very appetizing shots of their products and it will make you hungry for some of your delectable wares upon watching! All the folks at Haas Business School have been in love with it for some time now.
The Lion King, November 1, 2012 to January 13, 2013, Orpheum Theatre-1192 Market St., San Francisco, CA;
Sinbad w/Memphis Red & the Funk Stank Nasty Band – A Night of Funk and Comedy, Wed., Dec 26, 2012 @8 pm, Yoshi’s- Oakland, 510 Embarcadero W, Oakland Ca 94607;
Maysa, Friday-Sunday, Dec 21-22 @8 pm & 10pm, Yoshi’s- San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco;
Amel Larrieux, Wednesday-Thursday, Dec 26-27, 2012 @8pm & 10pm, Yoshi’s- San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco;
Maceo Parker’s New Years Party- Celebrate the New Year with Some Funk!, Thu 12/28-31/12 @10pm, Yoshi’s- San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco;
The Nutcracker w/San Francisco Ballet, Dec 8-28, 2012 @8:00 PM, War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102;
The Weeknd and Keyshia Cole, Dec 17-18, 2012 @8pm, The Warfield Theater, 982 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102;
2 Chainz with Cap 1, Sun, Dec 16, 2012 @8pm, The Warfield Theater, 982 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
On Christmas Eve, 1944, the audience at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House experienced the American premiere of Nutcracker. An instant sensation, the ballet launched a national holiday tradition.
San Francisco Ballet’s sparkling production of Nutcracker, set here in our own “City by the Bay,” has introduced audiences of all ages to the magnificent world of ballet. This holiday season, experience the beauty and athleticism of SF Ballet’s international cast of world-class dancers in Nutcracker, a San Francisco tradition since 1944.
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER The opulent new version of the seasonal classic, launched spectacularly by the San Francisco Ballet, is every parent’s dream of a holiday treat. San Francisco Chronicle
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AMEL LARRIEUX, Former lead singer of Groove Theory
Ice Cream Every Day (Blisslife Records), Amel’s upcoming fourth solo album, is slated for release in 2013.
An urban chanteuse by birth, Amel Larrieux grew up in a West Village “artists building” in New York City, her parents exposing her early to a community of artists and artistic experiences that would mold her eclectic sensibilities. At the age of 18, sure that she wanted to express herself musically, Amel wrote and demoed a song, which led to her pairing with Bryce Wilson to form the duo Groove Theory. As lead vocalist and co-writer for the group, she enjoyed success with “Tell Me,” which broke the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top five on the R&B charts before being certified gold in October 1995.
Morning (Blisslife Records/2006) was Amel’s third solo album. She used it as an opportunity to explore the endless range of promise and potential—as well as the disappointments—in being human. “Weary,” the first single from this album, was inspired by a friend’s experience and was composed for independent people who long for someone with whom they can share life’s trials and tribulations.
Flying high with a Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals Grammy nomination for her work on Stanley Clarke’s “Where is The Love,” Amel Larrieux stretched her wings in Bravebird (Blisslife Records/2004), her second solo work, rising courageously into atmosphere untouched by her contemporaries. The ballad “For Real” pulses with the beat of early Prince, offering a classic, unabashed ode to the human heart. In “Bravebird,” Amel mourns female circumcision by describing a fearless victim who fled her native Somalia for the U.S.
In her solo debut, Infinite Possibilities (Epic Records/2000), Amel fuses a range of genres – R&B, soul, hip-hop, jazz and folk, with flashes of Middle Eastern, West African, and Indian styles. Its single “Get Up” is an ode to working people that became a modern anthem and magnet for the growing legion of Amel’s fans.
Amel has contributed to film soundtracks, writing and singing in such films as Barbershop, Love Jones, Down To Earth, Sunset Park, Takers, and Why Did I Get Married?.
Equal to Amel’s vocal and writing talent is her alluring beauty and eclectic style. She has been spotlighted as a style maven in Essence, Honey, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Lucky Magazine,Trace, The Fader and other magazines and was also featured in the Coach anniversary print campaign. More recently her vocal talent and beauty have been central to Coca-Cola’s “Keep It Real” campaign in television, radio and print ads. She is also a trained dancer and a dedicated yoga enthusiast.
She is happily married to manager, producer and musical collaborator Laru Larrieux and they are the proud parents of two girls, Sanji-Rei and Sky.
Actor and Comedian Sinbad arrived on the comedy scene with a “ hit’em in the face” style of comedy that has kept audiences laughing in the aisles for over the past two decades. He freely admits that he doesn’t knows any jokes, except for the ones that his dad told him “back in the day”. Sinbad tells stories, and boy does he tell stories! The basis of his humor comes from everyone he’s met, everything he’s seen, and everything he’s done.
Ranked by Comedy Central as one of the top 100 standup comedians of all time, Sinbad has built a loyal following by taking audiences’ painful trials or embarassing tribulations of day-by-day life, throwing them back in their faces, and causing an uproar of comedic hysteria. He can also make it sound profound without being profane. Not that he’s any kind of choirboy, but by being the son of a preacher man he decided to keep his comedy clean after his father attended one of his early performances. Up to that time he had been what he describes himself as ”semi-dirty”. Sinbad says that he learned that night that “funny is funny”, and that masters of dirty comedy such as Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce could all work clean without losing a step.
Sinbad is internationally known for his starring appearances in hit movies like “Jingle All the Way,” playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger; “Houseguest” co-starring the late Phil Hartman, and let’s not forget his film debut “Necessary Roughness”, where he did none of his own stunts! He has starred in the television sitcom “A Different World” as well as his own series, “The Sinbad Show”. Entertainment mogul Quincy Jones sought out Sinbad to host UPN’s first late night talk show, “Vibe”. He also recently appeared as a recurring guest star on the Showtime Original Series “Resurrection Blvd.” Sinbad has even written a self-help book entitled “Sinbad’s Guide to Life: (Because I Know Everything)”. Sinbad has drawn legions of fans from his HBO highly-rated comedy specials; “Brain Damaged” (1991), “Afros & Bellbottoms” (1993), “Son of a Preacher Man” (1996), and “Nuthin But The Funk” (1998). His annual HBO music concert series (Oh! You didn’t know he was musical?) “Sinbad’s 70’s Soul Music Festival” received the prestigious NAACP Image Award consecutively for two years as the “Most Outstanding Variety Series/Special”.
A one-time basketball standout for the University of Denver, Sinbad agrees that everything he needed to know for comedy, he learned from playing basketball. There are a number of things comedy and basketball have in common. One of the most important to Sinbad is “the competitive aspect that teaches you to never give up”. Now there is one part of Sinbad’s life that has been a well kept secret…he is a closet nerd. This comes in handy as a Master of Technology during private corporate engagements for clients such as: Intel Corporation, Breakaway Technologies, Apple and Microsoft as well as many others.
As an intermediary to community focused technology solutions, Sinbad believes no one should be left behind in training and education. He has served as a spokesperson for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) encouraging minorities to pursue studies in science, math and engineering. In honor of his parents Donald & Louise Adkins, Sinbad has established an academic scholarship in their name at the esteemed Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Showing his appreciation for our armed servicemen, the comedian/actor has participated on USO tours and performed at the USO of Hampton Roads 2006 Patriotic Festival.
Sinbad has appeared on the FX Television series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Also, his long awaited stand-up special aired on Comedy Central this past February. Most recently, Sinbad was seen in the third season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.
Tony! Toni! Toné crashed out of their Oakland neighborhood in 1988 with their Gold debut album Who? which spawned the hit “Little Walter”. In 1990, to both critical and popular acclaim, their second album The Revival garnered four # 1 Billboard hits including “Feels Good,” “Whatever You Want,” “The Blues” and “It Never Rains (In Southern California)” and went Platinum. The success of The Revival and subsequent headlining tour was realized during various awards shows: 1991 NAACP Image Award for “Vocal Group Of The Year”, 1991 American Music Award for “Favorite R&B/Soul Group” and ASCAP Award for “Feels Good”.
In 2006, D’Wayne Wiggins and Timothy Christian Riley regrouped along with their cousin, Amar Khalil (performing lead vocals) and have been touring the United States ever since, performing to sold-out audiences across the country. Tony! Toni! Toné’s much anticipated sixth album, due to be released later this year, features collaborations with Rhymefest, Beyonce Knowles, Keyshia Cole, and Slick Rick with the Grass Roots Production Team weighing in on this sure-to-go platinum effort.
Come down to Broadway tonight and enjoy a coming-of-age tale about a young lion cubs’ journey to become King. With the music composed by Elton John and lyrics written by Tony Rice, The Lion King won a Tony Award in 1998 for Best Musical. Lion King tickets will make for an evening of entertainment for the whole family. Come see the magic of Disney translate to the stage at the theater tonight.
With every performance The Lion King moves further up the list of the longest running Broadway shows of all-time. Since debuting back in ’97 at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, The Lion King has been seen more than 5,000 times on Broadway alone, plus thousands of more performances around the world. The show was moved to the Minksoff Theatre in ’06, and since then just about every show has been sold out. The Minksoff, which was built in ’73, is one of the newer Broadway theaters and every one of the 1,621 seats will give you a great view of the show. If you want to be there in person, then buy your Lion King tickets today.
Of course The Lion King musical is based on the ’94 Disney movie of the same name, and it features all your favorite characters like Simba, Scar, Mufasa, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa. With music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice, you’ll hear familiar songs like “Circle of Life,” “Hakuna Matata” and “Be Prepared.” The costume design is simply spectacular, and that was confirmed when the show won Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for costumes, scenic design, lighting, puppetry and sound. The Lion King is beloved by all ages, and you can enjoy it with Lion King musical tickets from GoTickets.
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The Lion King musical is so popular that for a period of time there were actually two separate Lion King national tours going in addition to the permanent production in New York. No matter when or where you want to see this great show, you can count on GoTickets to have your Lion King Broadway show tickets. After almost 15 years, the Lion King is showing no signs of slowing, but at some point this great show will come to an end. So don’t put it off any longer – buy your Lion King tickets right now.
A marvelous musical of epic proportions, ‘The Lion King’ boasts itself of powerful scores and songs including the beloved theme ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’, intricately designed and majestic costumes, and eye-popping scenic designs that transport you to the breathtaking lands of Pride Rock and be one with Simba, Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki, Nala and all the other creatures lording above and beyond the prairie.
Show times for ‘The Lion King’ are at 8 PM from Tuesdays to Saturdays with matinee performances at 2 PM every Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The Weeknd is the stage name of the Ethiopian, Toronto-based R&B singer Abel Tesfaye. The Weeknd gained popularity in March 2011 after releasing his first album, House of Balloons. Prior to working with producers Illangelo and Doc McKinney, the artist was previously associated with the production team The Noise.
From the beginning however, The Weeknd has been supported by rapper Drake and his OVO crew. In fact, OVO crew member Oliver El-Khatib was the one who first played The Weeknd’s music to Drake, at which point he fell in love with the artist’s voice. Publicity created by Drake via his Twitter account ultimately led to The Weeknd’s initial popularity, and the singer has since exploded onto the music scene, having been featured in Rolling Stone magazine, MTV news, MuchMusic and more.
The Weeknd performed his first ever show at The Mod Club in Toronto on July 24, 2011. This is only the beginning for Abel. More info will be added as it comes. Until then, continue to support the XO gang… ’til we overdose.
The Weeknd – The Zone feat. Drake (Official Video)
2 Chainz Set To Begin The Second Leg Of His Sold Out “Based On A T.R.U Story” National Solo Tour
New York, NY – October 13, 2012 -There is no denying that 2 Chainz is the hottest rapper in Hip Hop music, today. After a meteoric rise rarely seen in music, he has safely secured his spot on the top. His style and impact is quickly changing the landscape of music and you can’t help but hear a rendition of his infectious “2 Chaaainz”, or “ Tru” when ever his name is mentioned. What makes it all the more impressive is that it isn’t just hype. “Based On A T.R.U Story”, his first solo project with his now label Def Jam, landed on the Billboard charts at Number 1 it’s first week and has sold close to 500,00 copies. 2 Chainz most recently performed at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards along side long time friend and collaborator, Lil’ Wayne, and stole the show. In addition to his performance at the VMAs, he also took the stage at the BET Hip Hop Awards while taking home 4 trophies.
As he gears up to embark upon the second leg of the tour, which begins in Jacksonville, FL on November 23st, 2 Chainz had this to say about the experience “I never get tired of seeing, vibing, and sharing experiences with my fans. It’s just me and them in an intimate setting, in a different city all over the country. We turn up and basically have a party in every city on stage. When the first half of the tour started the album had just dropped so I didn’t know what to expect. Now that the album has been number 1 in the country, and every city has been sold out, I feel like the people enjoy what I bring to the table.”
LOS ANGELES, CA, JULY 24, 2012 – After supporting Drake’s “Club Paradise” tour and Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” tour this summer, 2 Chainz will be embarking on his first headline national tour this fall entitled “Based on a T.R.U. Story Tour.” This tour will follow the highly anticipated solo debut album “Based on T.R.U. Story” is set to release on August 14th on Island Def Jam Records. The tour will kick off August 30th inNorfolk,Virginiawith stops includingWashingtonDC,Detroit,Chicago, and many more cities to be announced. The Atlanta MC states, “One of the things I enjoy the most about being an artist is the opportunity to get on the stage and give the fans everything they deserve. Everything they’ve come to expect from me. I’ve performed alongside some of the best in this business, but this time will be something special. This time it’s all me.” The road to more riches has only begun for 2 Chainz. After the release of the critically acclaimed mixtape, T.R.U. REALigion, which dropped in November 2011, 2 Chainz’s star began to rise at an astronomical rate. With the release of: “Spend It” and “Riot”, 2 Chainz immediately became the name and sound on everyone’s mixtape and radio station. With numerous features since 2011, it was then clear that he was going to be a force to be reckoned with. With the top charting single “No Lie” feat. Drake and recently released single “Birthday Song” feat. Kanye West this show will be sure to electrify.
George Clinton is the legendary and internationally renowned grandfather of funk and the founder of the Parliament-Funkadelic MOB, taking the sonic innovations of James Brown and Sly Stone to both outer space AND Neptune while selling millions of records and concert tickets in the process. Quiet as its kept, however, George Clinton’s initial approach to the ladies was crooning (when he wasn’t cutting hair) as the leader of a standup vocal group he formed in `55 called The Parliaments, emulating the doo wop and love songs that were popular when he was in diapers.
What is there left for the North Cackalackee-born grandfather of funk to do after five decades of rockin’ steady on the one? He can dip back to an era of sweet street corner soul that was his initial inspiration, take some folks back into time while blowing their minds.
Almost 70 years-young, George Clinton has several other projects in the hopper, including a salute to Motown and a solo album by longtime P-Funk All-Star siren Belita Woods. The master is also mindful that most of the folks whose songs he’s singing on Radio Friendly are no longer here, but he has no intention of joining them in Soul Heaven anytime soon. “I ain’t going nowhere,” he declares. “I feel like I’m starting over right now…for real!”
While Maysa is no newcomer to the music scene, her ninth solo CD, Motions of Love (Shanachie Entertainment) that boasts cameos by the legendary Stevie Wonder and neo soul crooner Dwele, promises to introduce the veteran soul and smooth jazz vocalist to the widest audience of her career. She first gained fame as the featured voice on British acid jazz band Incognito’s defining `90s era hits such as “Don’t You Worry About A Thing,” “Still A Friend of Mine” and “Deep Waters.” She then launched a concurrent solo career with the hits “Am I Wrong (For Lovin’ You),” “Friendly Pressure” and “Hypnotic Love.” With a sultry alto on par with Phyllis Hyman and Patti Austin’s honeyed notes, Maysa should be one of the biggest names in the urban mainstream but instead she’s earned a loyal underground audience.
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EXECUTIVE & MANAGEMENT POSITIONS International, independent film distributor Revolver Entertainment is seeking an Operations Executive for their LA office to handle film delivery to physical and digital vendors and publicity and marketing on new releases. Applicants must be organized, detail-oriented, and self-motivated. This is a tremendous opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding company. Recent college grads okay. Please email resumes and cover letters to angela@revolvergroup.com
ASSISTANT LEVEL United Talent Agency (UTA) seeks qualified candidates for its agent trainee program. Previous industry experience and bachelors degree required. Candidates must be motivated, extremely detail oriented, have excellent communication and organizational skills and a desire to learn the business of talent representation. This is a very demanding environment with excellent opportunities to work in Film, Television, Music, New Media and Entertainment Marketing. Proficiency with Microsoft Office software is mandatory. Compensation includes overtime and full benefits. References required. www.unitedtalent.com for more information. Fax cover letter & resume to (310) 247-1111 or email to HR@unitedtalent.com.
Attn: Human Resources. No calls.Seeking a highly motivated, driven assistant to a talent manager at a leading, progressive, full service entertainment and media company. Candidates must have a strong desire to be in the representation business. No less than 1 solid year of desk experience at a talent agency, management company or major studio supporting a manager or executive. Should be resourceful, extremely detail oriented, and great at multitasking and prioritizing. Duties include handling/rolling calls, interfacing with A-List clients, scheduling, script coverage, breakdowns, coordinating international travel, and other administrative tasks. Please forward resumes with cover memo to tcmgopo@gmail.com
Ideal candidates must have production office experience, should have some knowledge of budgeting and scheduling for productions, must be motivated, extremely detail-oriented, resourceful, have good communication and technical skills. Requires proficiency with PC environments, Outlook, Office and Movie Magic. This is NOT a job for someone who has only been on a desk at an agency, etc. Actual production experience is absolutely necessary. Duties include managing schedule, rolling calls, arranging travel, and interfacing with Production office, in addition to general administrative tasks. LA area only. Please send resumes to: phyprodexecasst@gmail.com
Preferred Content, a film, television and digital sales, finance and advisory company seeks an administrative assistant for one of its Managing Partners. Responsibilities include heavy phones, scheduling, client support and correspondence. Qualified candidate will have had previous experience at a talent agency or management company. Entry level salary with full health benefits after a 90 day probationary period. Please send resumes and cover letters to info@preferredcontent.netsubject stating:
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Assistant to Talent Manager/Owner being sought; must be available to interview and begin work immediately. Previous experience must include assistant position in the industry on a senior level desk. Strong attention to detail with excellent communication and computer skills a must. I am looking for someone who is eager to work with clients and handle a wide range of responsibilities. Salary/Hours are standard for industry: 9am-7pm at Beverly Hills office. Please submit cover letter and resume to mngmtresume@gmail.com.
ICM®, a major talent and literary agency, is seeking an exceptional and highly motivated Assistant for a “driven” Motion Picture Literary Agent. The successful candidate must be able to work extremely well in a fast paced environment and be very detail-oriented. Excellent communication skills a must. A BA/BS degree and at least one year of industry related administrative experience is required. Resumes to careersla@icmtalent.com
A-List production company looking for a very experienced assistant to work with two top level producers. This is a first/executive assistant position. Ideal candidates are extremely organized, motivated, meticulous, and comfortable in a very fast paced environment that can handle a high volume of calls and scheduling. Minimum 3-4 years agency or production company experience required. Experience a huge plus. Email resume to asstjob2012@gmail.com
Production company based on Fox lot seeks full-time office production assistant to assist with daily errand running and office tasks. Must have dependable car, positive attitude and ability to multi-task. Must be able to start work December 17th. Send resumes to prodassist42@gmail.com
Currently, we are seeking a Channel Development Coordinator to support our Network Development department. This individual will help manage many of Maker’s strategic talent partners, and will be responsible for helping to facilitate their growth by providing guidance, support and by connecting them to the many resources within Maker Studios. To apply, submit your resume to: jobs@makerstudios.com, please add job title to subject line.
Talent Manager at high-end management/production company looking for an assistant. This is NOT a starter desk. All applicants must have 6 months assistant experience (agency/talent experience preferred but not essential for smart, fast-learning applicants). Must be highly organized, hard-working, detail-oriented and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. E-mail cover letter and resume to talentmanassist@gmail.com.
Trademark Talent seeks an assistant to the owner of the company. Candidates must have at least 2 years similar experience at an agency, studio, network, management or production company. This is fast paced office requiring someone who is very detail oriented, proactive and creative. Responsibilities include rolling calls, scheduling, evaluating material, client and administrative support, as well as coordinating with agents, publicists, casting directors and production. Desire to pursue a career in representation is preferred. Please write “Assistant” in the subject line and send cover letter and resume to: trademarktalent@gmail.com
Director Assistant needed ASAP! For feature film shooting in LA. Must be available for the entire shoot, and ideally have a car. This is an unpaid position, but offers the chance to work with an extremely talented director. Send resumes to lahorrorfeaturefilm@gmail.com
A leading independent film production and financing company is seeking a qualified assistant for the Head of Business and Legal Affairs. Ideal candidate must be motivated, extremely detail oriented, and have excellent communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills. Job responsibilities include: rolling calls, scheduling, filing, tracking documents as well as other administrative, production, and business affairs duties. Experience in Production Legal is essential. Please email resumes to legalasst@filmpanorama.com.
Endemol USA is seeking an assistant/Coordinator for our Programming Department. Knowledge and Interest in reality TV a must. At least one year of assistant experience at an agency/network/production company a must. Looking for someone very professional, eager, diligent, able to handle multiple projects and executives at once and proficient on a Mac. Email cover letter and resume to careers@endemolusa.tvand include how you found out about this job. Please also include “Programming Assistant/Coordinator” in email subject line.
Busy high-level Management, Branding and Production Company seeking Executive Assistant/Junior Manager for the President of the company. – Dealing w/ A-List clients on a daily basis- Candidate should be able to work well under pressure, driven, detail oriented and creative with strong communication skills, flexible, prioritize, deal with variable deadlines, initiative, self motivated, personable demeanor, strong client interfacing and coordination skills. Candidate should have at least two years’ experience in the Talent Agency and/or Talent Management industry. Must be great at pitching clients to Casting Directors and have strong relationships with Agents. Proficient in Breakdown submissions, Microsoft Office and Apple OS X and iOS. Contact: AsstPosition9028@aol.com
Television Production/Development Company seeks all-star assistant to support the CEO. Great opportunity to work in an environment where all staff members are encouraged to contribute creatively. Minimum of one-year industry experience required. Candidates must feel comfortable taking initiative, be extremely detail-oriented, and possess substantial knowledge of all aspects of the industry. Responsibilities will include rolling calls, scheduling, and other various administrative tasks. Please send cover letter and resume to developassistant@gmail.com
IFA Talent Agency is seeking an agent’s assistant. Tasks include rolling calls, scheduling appointments, maintaining calendars for agent and clients, sending out submissions, light accounting, filing, and working with the other assistants as a team to be sure the office runs smoothly. Must be proficient with Mac software, as well as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Entourage). Experience with Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and InEntertainment software a huge plus. Preferably someone with at least one year experience in the film/TV industry. Position must be filled immediately. Please e-mail resumes to assistantifa@gmail.com
Busy production company seeks a qualified Business Affairs Coordinator. Responsibilities include overseeing project legal management, delivery, documents and letters, managing invoices and payments, and general point person support for various productions. Bachelor’s Degree and 2-5 years experience required. Please email résumés to mpcajobs@gmail.com
Nickelodeon is seeking an assistant to support the Vice President of Casting for the Nickelodeon Talent and Casting department. This is a temporary position. Previous administrative experience preferably in entertainment/casting or a talent agency with a strong desire to work in casting. Should have knowledge of actors and industry players. Strong communication and phone skills needed. Strong organization and prioritization skills are critical for this position. Please submit resumes to: WCRegionalRecruitmen@mtvn.com
A busy independent production and finance company is looking for a top-notch assistant for the head of Production/Development. Ideal candidate will be extremely organized, detail-oriented, have an interest in film development, and at least one year of agency experience. Responsibilities will include rolling calls, managing calendar, coordinating travel, managing to-do list, and other general assistant duties, including some personal errands. This is a great job for a hard-working individual who wants to learn the ins and outs of producing and financing. Send resumes to assistanthiringmanager@gmail.com
Highly successful and exciting boutique talent agency seeks assistant in the Voice Over department. Must be self-motivated, immensely computer literate and great personality. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Please submit resumes to: commercialagentsearch@yahoo.com
Looking for a talented individual to assist the SVP of Acquisitions and Development at Fremantle Media Enterprises. This is a high-volume desk, and agency/studio/network experience is preferred, but not required. Hours typically range from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm Monday-Friday, and the office is located in Burbank down the street from the WB lot. Tasks include scheduling, rolling calls, arranging travel, completing expense reports, and updating pilot grids, among other administrative tasks. Great place to learn and grow. The scripted department just launched its first show, titled “Wedding Band” on TBS. Fremantle is a global studio and distributor that produces “American Idol” and “The X Factor” in addition to a variety of international formats. All interested candidates should send their resumes to Pedro Falci at pcfalci@gmail.com
Dimension Films is seeking an assistant in production/development in New York. This is a highly demanding position with plenty of opportunity for advancement. Must be dedicated, focused and proficient in handling assistant tasks – phones, scheduling, etc. Ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of relevant experience. Knowledge of script coverage a must. Bachelors degree required. Please submit a resume and cover letter to dimensionfilms4@gmail.com
Seeking ambitious, hard-working assistant with 1 year entertainment industry experience who wants to work to become an agent. Primarily working for TV/Film agent in Youth Department dealing with top executives, parents/guardians, appointments, phones. Detailed, inEntertainment a plus. Please state why you would like to become an agent and what qualifies you to work with the parents/guardians of young talent. Competitive wage, health insurance, paid parking. Resume to: kiernan@greenetalent.com
Can you write fun, informative, celebrity-related news stories in an engaging and conversational style? Are you a pop culture junkie? Hollywood-centric website is seeking fulltime Writer/Editorial Assistant. Employee will help develop stories based on current entertainment news, proofread articles, and search for photographs which bring articles to life. Position is entry-level with benefits. Offices in West Hollywood. Early 6am schedule, Monday-Friday. Email resume, cover letter, AND relevant writing samples to AssistEditor2010@gmail.com
Entry level assistant position with great potential for advancement in a boutique theatrical, on-camera and voice-over talent agency. Involves basic office duties such as phones, appointments, interaction with talent and buyers, and calendar management. Primary focus will be assisting in voice-over department, directing and recording voice-over auditions. Opportunity to advance into other departments and participate in the growth of the company. Fax resumes to (323) 931-9084 or email to admin@imperium-7.com
Entertainment Law Firm Is Seeking A Experienced Administrative Asst/Floater. Must have a minimum of 2 years prior experience working at a law firm, studio or agency. Ability to fill in for an assistant that is out of the office. Duties include-rolling calls; maintaining attorney’s calendar/schedule; composing correspondence; general assistant duties. Assisting in the file room; running office errands; assisting with reception. Well educated; resourceful; honest; self-starter and team player. Impeccable spelling and grammar a must. Excellent telephone manners. Ability to work unsupervised. Please submit cover letter and resume to dek@morrisyorn.com.
Talent Manager at a bi-coastal management firm seeks seasoned assistant, meaning with experience (at a min. 6 months-1 year) for office in Los Angeles. Experience MUST include time at an agency or management company. Internship does not count. Applicants must be self-motivated, highly organized, hard-working, detail-oriented and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. The more computer and tech knowledge, the better. Competitive pay and benefits. Again, please do not apply for this position unless you have at least six months to a year experience at a major agency or management office working as an assistant to an agent/manager who represents actors. Email cover letter and resume to: assistant.management7@gmail.com
Leading production/management company (with four movies being released next year and top-tier clients) seeks asst for two literary managers. Agency experience preferred. Great position/opportunity for someone who wants to be a manager. Collaborative work environment. Looking for someone who is hungry, hard-working, and communicates well. Heavy reading involved. Please send resumes to: filmtvmanagerasst@gmail.com
Talent management Company seeks high-level, experienced assistant to Partner. Looking for a self-starter who is a problem-solver, motivated, personable, detail oriented, efficient and organized. Must have a genuine interest in talent management. Responsibilities include but are not limited to scheduling, coordinating travel, managing day to day of clients and partner, rolling calls and general office duties. Candidates MUST have at least one-year talent agency or talent management experience. Position has growth potential. Ideal candidate would be available to start immediately. Salary & benefits. Please send cover letter and resume to talentmgmtresumes@hotmail.com
PERSONAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS High profile visual artist seeks resourceful personal assistant. Duties include scheduling, travel, event planning, expense tracking, and errands. Ideal candidate will be organized, flexible, proactive, and efficient. Must be: based in Los Angeles, but able to travel; willing to go above and beyond; professional and discreet; and comfortable with “outside the box” situations. Email resume, cover letter and (3) references to asstjob1217@gmail.com
Popular television host is looking for a new personal assistant who can multi-task and keep cool under pressure. Fast-paced position entails scheduling, heavy phones, errands and other standard assistant work. Previous assistant experience, reliable transportation, discretion and flexibility required, working knowledge of Microsoft Office, valid passport and interest in the fashion industry are a plus. Salary commensurate with experience, please email cover letters and resumes to: tvassistant2012@gmail.com.
A-list writer director seeking full time assistant. Qualified candidates must have previous assistant experience, preferably at a major agency. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and excels at multi-tasking. Duties include, but are not limited to, professional and personal scheduling, handling all aspects of travel, and office management. Submit resumes to asst.nov2012@gmail.com. Please include a brief cover letter in the body of your email.
ENTERTAINMENT PR & MARKETING (MOST POSITIONS INCLUDING INTERNSHIPS) Boutique entertainment event production and marketing company seeking an energetic and talented individual to support the Founder& CEO as Executive Assistant, as well as organize and coordinate office operations and procedures. The right candidate will have a background in marketing PR and events with an emphasis on viral marketing and promotions. This position is permanent. Minimum 3 years experience as an Executive Assistant and at least 2 years in entertainment marketing/PR. – email resumes to executiveassthire@gmail.com
Startup content marketing and entertainment strategy agency formed by former WME agents is looking for qualified candidates for winter/spring intern positions at Venice Beach office. Interns will be responsible for development of special projects and have exposure to day-to-day business operations with Fortune 100 brand clients and top entertainment talent in a meaningful capacity. Desired qualifications include: experience with online media, social and digital marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube etc.); experience in content, marketing or entertainment; able to think creatively and outside the box; ability to balance multiple projects and work effectively in a fast-paced environment; and demonstrated ability at creating and analyzing content. Academic credit is available. The ideal candidate is available 2-3 days per week. Schedule is very flexible, with occasional ability to work from home. If interested, please send resumes via email to jobs@reachent.com.
Red Light PR , a boutique fashion firm specializing in product placement, publicity, entertainment marketing and celebrity seeding, is seeking interns for their Winter 2012/Spring 2013 internship program. Qualified candidates should have excellent communication/people skills, prior experience in fashion/PR field is a plus, and open schedule availability. Email resume and cover letter to internship@redlightpr.com
Autumn Communications is a lifestyle public relations firm looking for an entry-level assistant. Responsibilities include: managing an ever-changing schedule, online and print research, press clipping, maintain filing, expense reports, gifting, events and pitching. Candidate will have at least 1 year working PR experience with press contacts, great writing skills, positive attitude and the ability to work in a start-up environment. Salary DOE. Please send resume to Cole Trider: cole@autumncommunications.com
TECH/NEW MEDIA/WEB 2.0 POSITIONS Entertainment tech startup, Handmade Mobile Entertainment, is looking for 2 paid marketing interns. HME builds social networking apps for celebrities and brands; our most recent apps include Trey Songz’s The Angel Network, and Inked Magazine’s Inked Society. We are growing and looking for interns interested in turning full time. Candidates should be a self-starter, and have familiarity with UI/UX, mobile apps, and gaming/social networking. GA, Photoshop, CSS/HTML skills preferred- $10/hr. Send resumes to jobs@handmademobile.com
Relativity Media Digital Marketing seeks a qualified and digitally-savvy assistant to the SVP and Digital Marketing Group. Position requires a good attitude, strong work ethic, organization, & an emphasis on attention to detail. Candidates must have a strong desire to have a full time career in digital and social media marketing. Responsibilities include traditional assistant duties with heavy focus on scheduling and office management. In addition, you will compile social media data, maintain a budget, and keep a calendar for all campaigns. Strong written and verbal communication skills and in-depth knowledge of social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are a plus. Prior assistant experience in an entertainment industry setting preferred. Send resumes to: Liz.Jones@relativitymedia.com
A small production company and transmedia consulting firm in Beverly Hills, CA, is seeking qualified candidates with experience in WordPress, HTML, video editing, graphic design, and Photoshop to fill a part-time website, social media, and graphics creative/technical support position. Previous industry experience a plus but not a requirement. The position could become full-time for the right person. Salary TBD. Email resumes to stuart@flyingmonkeysent.com
Leading digital media network needs a Program Manager – proficiency in Salesforce.com critical; minimum of 2 years digital media program management. Duties: Create all talent contracts (SOWs), work with legal, and the applicable sales reps, talent managers, and production managers to ensure that campaigns run smoothly; create and maintain workflows, approval processes, and validation rules; provide weekly reports for both the finance and sales teams. Ability to sweat the details without losing sight of the big picture – supreme! Please send resume and cover to tcmgopo@gmail.com
High-volume YouTube talent and network management company seeks interns for school credit. Must be a quick learner who is familiar with the online video space, computer literate, and detail-oriented with strong communication skills. Entertainment and/or digital marketing experience a plus. Responsibilities include client interaction, network maintenance and optimization, data management, and creative development. E-mail resumes with subject “Fullscreen Intern” to work@fullscreen.net
CASTING (ALL POSITIONS INCLUDING INTERNSHIPS) Busy feature film casting office (located in Hollywood) is seeking a smart, experienced casting assistant to start in December. Duties will include: editing/uploading audition footage, setting and confirming sessions, sorting submissions, creating and updating lists, helping out with phones and other administrative and research tasks. Knowledge of CastIt and Breakdown Express along with experience with iMovie is a must. Also required is your own MAC laptop computer. Ability to multitask and prioritize is essential: great organizational skills also needed. ONLY candidates with experience will be considered. Please send cover letter and resume to bitterpillcasting@gmail.com
NON-LA POSITIONS (All Locations/All Positions) United Talent Agency seeks an IT Support Specialist in our New York office. This position is responsible for providing first line user support for the IT Department. The ideal candidate will have a college degree or equivalent related work experience and will have proficient knowledge of Windows based systems, computer networking, Windows Server Administration, Audio/Visual systems, HP printers and Microsoft Office. Provision new workstations, printers, and PDAs. Create user Windows network accounts, Exchange mailboxes, and Citrix accounts. Coordinate work with vendors and outside consultants. Troubleshoot problems with desktops, printers or PDAs. Assist users with software questions. Work with Facilities on office moves and setups. Assists users with the operation of all A/V Systems. Assist with IT issues related to executive relocation and assist issue related to home office technology. Please send resume in a Word format to nyc-it@unitedtalent.com
GENERAL OFFICE POSITIONS-RECEPTIONIST/ PA /BOOKEEPING/ RUNNER Receptionist at established TV production company. Seeking smart and personable receptionist with some experience for receptionist position at Embassy Row LA. Send resume (no calls, please) to: embassysusan@gmail.com
HBO is seeking a Staff Floater for their Santa Monica office. Ideal candidate will be a team player who is flexible, organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task with a strong ability to support executives in various departments across the company. Responsibilities include routing/rolling high call volume, greeting visitors, scheduling meetings, arranging travel, preparing expense reports, filing, etc. Agency experience a plus. If you are interested, please e-mail resume to Tony.Abdelmalak@hbo.com
Seeking highly-motivated office assistant for boutique TV and film literary management company (not a production or development job). Requirements: industrious, tough, self-starter, multi-tasker with can-do attitude who can work independently and who is available to start immediately and make one-year commitment. Similar (non-production) entertainment office experience highly preferable (phone sheet, submissions, scheduling, filing, logs, etc.). $500 to $550/week depending on experience. Limited benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Field Entertainment via fax: 310-271-6243 or e-mail: hiring@fieldentertainment.net
INTERNSHIPS (Film & Television) Sean Daniel Company is looking for exceptional candidates to start immediately and/or for the spring semester who can commit 2-3 days per week for hands-on development internship. Responsibilities include desk duties (phones, general office management) as well as reading and notes with direct access to producer and executives. UNPAID. Send cover letter & resume to: sdcfilmintern@gmail.com
Practical Pictures is looking for spring interns (unpaid) starting January. This is a very unique internship opportunity – you won’t be a gopher/copy monkey here. Hands-on interfacing with the producer bosses in a small company means you’ll need some experience (phones, computers) but is also a strong draw to this position – your opinion will be welcome. If you’re able to work 2 or more full days, please email resumes to practicalintern@yahoo.com
The Montecito Picture Company is beginning to accept resumes for the winter semester and will be conducting interviews in the coming weeks. Interested applicants can send their cover letters/resumes to ereich@montecitopic.comand we will contact people from there. This is a development internship that is heavy on coverage, thus we’ve found that ideal candidates usually have an interest in writing/development. Interns are also expected to help with errands and miscellaneous office tasks. Please be enrolled in college for internship credit.
A-list comedy writer-producer looking for Spring semester intern. Duties include reading and covering submissions for consideration, maintaining office, participating in creative and development meetings, and performing personal errands. Must be a team player and self-starter. Email resume to tpinternship@gmail.com
Good Universe (formerly Mandate Pictures known for 50/50, HOPE SPRINGS, JUNO, HAROLD & KUMAR, etc.) seeks motivated, detail-oriented interns for its Spring 2013 Marketing & Publicity internship program. Responsibilities include: monitoring digital media, clipping press breaks, creating press kits, drafting press releases, assisting with screenings, handling behind-the-scenes coverage, attending weekly staff meetings, etc. This position is unpaid and candidates must receive college credit. To apply, send resumes to gooduniverse.resumes@gmail.com
The Cartel, a television and feature management/production company, is seeking interns for the Winter and Spring as we prepare a number of films for production. Responsibilities include script coverage, research, phones, administrative tasks, and errands. During production, interns may choose to be on set. Please email resume and cover letter to: intern.cartel@gmail.com
Film 44 is seeking interns for the winter and spring while we are prepping 1-2 pilots and ramping up two films. Duties include errands, office management, coffee, and script/book coverage. Candidates should be eligible for college credit and have a car. Interns will have the opportunity to be actively involved with both television and features and interface with executives. We will provide lunch and reimburse mileage. Please email resumes and a brief cover letter to film44intern@gmail.com
Boutique Talent Agency in Beverly Hills seeks intern interested in the Entertainment industry. Duties will include general office tasks, filing, script coverage, social media, organizing, scheduling, confirming auditions with talent, etc. Candidates should be organized, self starters, possess good people/communication skills, have a great attitude, and enjoy the entertainment industry. Must be a college student/recent graduate and own a laptop. Unpaid Internship. Email Resume/Cover Letter to – elev8jobs@gmail.com– Note “Intern” in Subject Line
A busy West Hollywood based film financier and production company require a Monday/Tuesday intern immediately. Duties include office work and script coverage. Candidates should be enthusiastic, computer literate and detail-oriented. This is a great opportunity to learn and see how independent films are financed. Position is unpaid, candidates must have script coverage experience. Please email cover letters, availability and resumes to: Receptionusa@futurefilmgroup.com
A small film production company and transmedia consulting firm in Beverly Hills, CA, is seeking smart and capable interns to start immediately. Duties include: Industry research, social media management, script coverage, assistance at meetings, and general office needs. Qualifications: strong knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, proficiency on social media platforms, ability to learn quickly, demonstrates initiative, and adapt/adjust to shifting priorities. The candidate must demonstrate good research skills, both qualitative and quantitative, utilize strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Proficiency in Photoshop and/or video editing software preferred. The internship is part-time and small stipend provided. Please email a resume and cover letter to stuart@flyingmonkeysent.com
Micro-budget feature seeks driven, UNPAID PA interns for LA based shoot. Production starts 11/27 and ends 12/15. This is a real movie with a tremendous talent behind it – great chance for on-set experience. Send resumes to lahorrorfeaturefilm@gmail.com.
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Dynamic production company seeks creative, intelligent, enthusiastic interns for the spring semester. Actively looking for individuals with strong creative input and development skills. Applicants must be able to commit to two or three days a week. Although the position is unpaid, the experience gained will be invaluable, and lunch is compensated. Knowledge of the film industry and a great attitude desired. Our office is located in Los Angeles. Please email resume to liz@perfectstorment.com
Lawrence Bender Productions, an independent production company with its own financing seeks Development Interns to start immediately for our Fall Session as well as for our Spring Session. Heavy reading, answering phones and the opportunity to sit in creative meetings. Must have a car, all mileage reimbursed. Hours: 9am-7pm, 2 – 3 days a week. Please send a cover letter within the body of the email and attach your resume. Lbproductionsinterns@gmail.com
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Principato-Young Entertainment is a top management company known in the industry for our clients and for our culture that highlights teamwork, respect and results. Currently we are seeking interns interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. Candidates must be articulate, personable, driven to succeed through hard work fast, resourceful and to find no task to small. Duties include: answering phones, general office duties, submissions, heavy script coverage and various runs. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and to get noticed. Must be able to commit a minimum of 2 days a week. Please send resumes to pyeinternship@gmail.com
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Founded in 1957, dick clark productions, inc. is a diverse entertainment enterprise and a leading independent producer of television programming. We seek motivated interns for our spring program in the following departments: video operations, social media, Web site, sponsorship, production, and development. If interested, please e-mail Darrell at ddavis@dickclark.com.
Virgin Produced, a film, scripted and unscripted television company, is looking for interns! Duties include script reading/analysis, coverage and research on active projects, as well as general administrative tasks such as phones, filing and coffee schlepping. You must have a car (or transportation), computer, a passion for the entertainment business and an awesome sense of humor. College credit preferred. Applicants must be available for at least two full days a week. Please send cover letter and resumes to gigs@virginproduced.com
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Development Internship for Voltage Pictures. Interns responsibilities include answering phones, rolling calls, preparing daily submissions, reading scripts and writing coverage. Interns are encouraged to attend the bi-weekly project meetings with Nicolas Chartier and his development team. This is a great opportunity to become involved in the development process. This is a high volume office and candidates must be punctual, able to multitask with a great work ethic. This position is a non-paid internship that can be used for college credit. Send resumes to: office@voltagepictures.com
Looking for a super stellar intern who has a passion for independent film production for the company, Hassell Free Productions. You will wear many hats in this position as you will be working with a film producer – so get ready! We currently have two films in production and several films in various stages of development. Must be hard-working, not afraid to ask questions and a good sense of humor. Looking for 1-2 days a week and must have a car. Word and Excel savvy a plus. Office is located on the west side. Please email resumes to: hassellfreeproductions@gmail.com
Threshold Animation Studios in Santa Monica, California is currently seeking Spring internship candidates. We are looking for hard working interns to work alongside our Creative and Business Development Teams. Previous internships, work experience and knowledge of the animation pipeline a plus. Applicants must be eligible to receive academic credit. Please Note: Our studio is dog friendly. Please send resume & cover letters to Laura@ThresholdEntertainment.com
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A-List Director and his team seek capable and driven interns to start as soon as possible. This director has several features under his belt and is starting many new and exciting projects. Intern duties include: runs, reading scripts, writing coverage, helping with assembling presentations, managing online presence, etc. This is an unpaid internship. Please email a resume (with at least three professional references). Include a cover letter expressing why you should be considered for the position and your three strongest skills (writing, directing,etc). Also, enclose any writing samples or reels to apply.listings@gmail.com
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High-end Talent Management Company with strong Film & Television Development/ Production side is looking for motivated interns who seek to gain a deeper knowledge of the entertainment industry. Interns must be to perform tasks such as: answering phones, providing script coverage, desk assistance, as well as general office work. The internship must be for college credit. We are currently accepting applications and will through the end of December. To apply please submit a resume and cover letter to internship@mosaicla.com
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LEGAL STRATEGY THAT JOE TSAI, THE NETS, NBA, AND NIKE OWE KYRIE IRVING FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS, DAMAGES
LEGAL STRATEGY THAT JOE TSAI, THE NETS, NBA, AND NIKE OWE KYRIE IRVING FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS, DAMAGES
Kyrie Irving forced to make an unqualified apology
As a 50 year, LEGENDARY, pioneering SUPER AGENT/BUSINESS MANAGER/ADVISOR of the Sports and Entertainment Legal Business field, IT IS MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION THAT THERE IS A LEGAL STRATEGY WITH A GREAT POSSIBILITY THAT JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, OWE KYRIE IRVING HIS FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS AND FOR THE DAMAGE TO AND LOSS THEREOF HIS NAME, CREDIBILITY, REPUTATION AND EARNING CAPACITY FOR ENDORSEMENTS, ETC.! THE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE THEMSELVES WITH THE ONEROUS PUNISHMENT FORCED UPON KYRIE FOR THE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIONS THAT HE DID NOT COMMIT AND THE FURTHER PERSECUTION OF IRVING WITH THE IMPOSITION OF THE EXTRA JUDICIAL INHUMANE “SIX CONDITIONS” BY JOE TSAI AND THE NETS WITH COMPLICITY OF THE NBA, THAT HE HAD TO CURE TO OVERCOME HIS BEING “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM”!!
Those steps included a spoken/written apology condemning the film, a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes, sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders, and Nets owner Joe Tsai. The HYPOCRITE NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with his feigned SELF-SERVING, SELF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND OURAGE stepped in and DEMANDED a meeting and an UNQUALIFIED APOLOGY, DENUNCIATION AND CONDEMNATION of the film from Kyrie BEFORE any reinstatement!
Irving issued several written apologies “To All Jewish families and Communities that are hurt and affected from my post, I am deeply sorry to have caused you pain, and I apologize” without outright condemning the film, made a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes, and met with Tsai and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Kyrie apologized when he Did NOT offer an unqualified endorsement and more specifically verbally praise the alleged vile and harmful content contained in the film he allegedly chose to publicize? THOSE ARE ALL JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, UNFORCED ERRORS, INTENTIONALLY WRONGFUL CONCLUSIONS OR OPINIONS!! THE ISSUE WAS Semitic/ANTI-Semitic! KYRIE WAS RIGHT ON THAT!
After their meeting, Tsai said “We spent quality time to understand each other and it’s clear to me that Kyrie does not have any beliefs of hate towards Jewish people or any group”.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he has “no doubt” that Irving is not antisemitic” and “The Nets and Kyrie, together with the NBA and NBPA, are working constructively toward a process of forgiveness, healing and education” the National Basketball Players Association told its members in an email.
Yet Irving was NOT permitted to play!
Tsai tweeted the guard “still has work to do.”
The original suspension by the Nets detailed “We were dismayed today, when given an opportunity in a media session, that Kyrie refused to unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs, nor acknowledge specific hateful material in the film,” the Nets wrote in a statement not attributed to any individual. “This was not the first time he had the opportunity — but failed — to clarify.
“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team. Accordingly, we are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.”
“He has to show people that he’s sorry,” Tsai told The New York Post. “What’s important — and what people miss — is he only apologized after he was suspended.”
Jalen Brown, VP of the National Basketball Players Association called the response from Tsai, “alarming for multiple reasons.”
“We have maintained from the beginning, and will continue to repeat every chance we get, that Kyrie and the Players Association unequivocally condemn antisemitism and all other forms of hate,” the union wrote.
It added, “We continue to make sure that Kyrie’s rights, and the rights of all future players, have been protected at every turn, and look forward very soon to a resolution of all matters satisfactory to all parties.”
Apparently he still had to satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders”.
Kyrie Irving missed the Brooklyn Nets’ six games after the team issued the guard a five-game minimum suspension for his repeated refusal to apologize for posts linking to an alleged antisemitic film.
The suspension continued and Irving was losing $252,000 per game!
Tsai’s DEMANDS that Irving has to “outright condemn the film”, satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training, as well as meetings with the ADL, Jewish leaders” may be the MOST ONEROUS AND DAMNING EVER IN VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS!
Nets owner Tsai was the face of NBA’s TERRORIZING Kyrie Irving and over one million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities- has financially contributed to the Chinese government’s Human Rights violations in the cultural genocide of the Muslim population, jailing them in barbed-wire camps, sterilizing women, destroying mosques, forced labor, banning religious activities including the Holy month of Ramadan, and forced “re-education” as an Advocate of China’s Communist Regime! KYRIE IRVING IS Muslim! MOST SEMITES ARE MUSLIMS!
Tsai claims Irving is “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM” because he had declined to say he has no antisemitic views in the week since he posted a link on Twitter to a film with alleged hateful claims about Jewish people.
“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team,” the Nets said in a statement.
Irving’s tweet WAS NOT a “TEAM ACTIVITY”, he was acting as an individual without any responsibility nor liability to nor for the team!
The TEAM CAUSED AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE DAMAGE BY THEIR KNEELING DOWN BEFORE AND TO THE JEWISH “ANTI-SEMITIC” KABBALAH MEDIA MACHINERY BULLYING THEM INTO SUBMISSION WITH THEIR ILLEGAL, IRRELIGIOUS DEMANDS!
THE NBA Players Association should have IMMEDIATELY filed a Federal Grievance Complaint and request for arbitration and had the NBA stay ANY and ALL actions by the team until the matter was decided.
The ILLEGAL, IRRELIGIOUS DEMANDS of JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, NOT ONLY
Jack Ma standing, Joe Tsai seated
VIOLATE HIS NBA CONTRACT, it violates the tenets of Kyrie’s own self professed religion of Islam and his being forced to denounce anything that may violate his personal beliefs as well, is just further evidence of TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, belief that they can coerce Kyrie into their form of forced “re-education” as Tsai has with the over one million Uyghur Muslims in China’s Communist Regime!
Under what paragraph in Irving’s contract with the Nets and the NBA/NBAPA Collective Bargaining Agreement allows for these conditions to be LEGALLY imposed upon a player??!!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “outright condemn the film”!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training”!
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TO DEMAND HE “meet with the ADL, Jewish leaders”!
THESE DEMANDS ARE IN DIRECT CORRELATION TO TSAI’S COMMUNIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE AND TERRORIZING OF THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF JAILING THEM IN BARBED-WIRE CAMPS, STERILIZING WOMEN, DESTROYING MOSQUES, FORCED LABOR, BANNING ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, AND FORCED “RE-EDUCATION” TO PROGRAM THEM OUT OF ISLAM!!
IT IS APPARENT THAT TSAI AIMS TO FORCE IRVING’S “RE-EDUCATION” TO DEPROGRAM HIM OUT OF HIS ISLAMIC FAITH!!
Here in America, there has been numerous reports of how certain elements of society has attempted to release (someone) from apparent brainwashing, gender/sexual inclinations/deviations, addiction, typically that of a social or religious group/cult, by the systematic re-indoctrination of conventional values!
Additionally, there have been numerous complaints from Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli groups that have found fault with the ADL and certain Jewish leaders that would make meetings with them even MORE PROBLEMATIC and AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS!
IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE CLEAR IN THIS CASE THAT THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF TSAI’S!
KYRIE IRVING IS Muslim and a SEMITE AS ARE MOST MUSLIMS!
It is Tsai that needs to “satisfactorily complete “sensitivity and antisemitic training”!
THIS BRINGS INTO QUESTION AND DEMANDS A RESPONSE FROM TSAI as there HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS, BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF HIS PUBLICLY ADDRESSING, MUCH LESS ISSUING AN APOLOGY, CONDEMNING THE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN CHINA WITH HIS FUNDS AND TECHNOLOGY that many China experts hold him accountable for!
In China, under Tsai’s leadership, Alibaba funded companies that helped China build “an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency,” according to a 2020 congressional report.
Those companies are blacklisted by the U.S. government for supporting a “campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-tech surveillance” through state-of-the-art racial profiling technologies that are being used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the government has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire “re-education” camps, policies that have been described as cultural “genocide” by the United States, several other countries and human rights organizations.
“Joe Tsai has had all the warning in the world about what is happening in Xinjiang, and if he thought it was important to extricate Alibaba, it would have happened,” said Matt Schrader, a China analyst for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democracy around the world. “Joe Tsai is the second-most powerful person at the company.”
On Oct. 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that 28 Chinese organizations — including Megvii and SenseTime, the Alibaba-funded artificial intelligence companies — had been added to the “Entity List,” which imposes trade restrictions on people or institutions engaged in activity “contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”
Surveillance is at the core of China’s efforts to control the Uyghur population, a policy the government says is necessary to stop terrorism and maintain stability. ESPN reported in 2020 that American coaches at an NBA training academy in Xinjiang were surveilled and harassed. One coach said he was detained three times, comparing the atmosphere to “World War II Germany.”
JOE TSAI IS ANTI-SEMITIC!!!
Tsai’s DISGUSTING activities has now brought into play legally compelling responses requiring legal answers to his involvement in the
Sanction China over Uyghur “Genocide”
funding of the Communist Chinese Genocide of Uyghur Muslims, their forced re-education/de-programing, renouncing their illegal Human Rights policy violations, among others, THAT HE AND THE NBA DO NOT WANT TO BE INVESTIGATED, EXPOSED NOR LITIGATED!!
ADAM SILVER SHEKEL HIGHNESS- WHERE IS YOUR SELF-SERVING, SELF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND OURAGE AT ANTI-SEMITE JOE TSAI FUNDING Chinese Genocide OF Uyghur Muslims, jailing them in barbed-wire camps, sterilized women, destroyed mosques, forced labor, banned Holy Ramadan, forced “re-education”!
“Amid growing international condemnation, the [People’s Republic of China (PRC)] continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity” in the Xinjiang region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “The United States reiterates its calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.“
United States and its allies in Canada, Britain and the European Union announced sanctions on several Chinese officials alleged to have links to what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uyghur Muslims. “These actions demonstrate our ongoing commitment to working multilaterally to advance respect for human rights and shining a light on those in the PRC government and [Chinese Communist Party] responsible for these atrocities,“ Blinken said.
U. S. Treasury also added that “Since at least late 2016, repressive tactics have been used by the XPSB against the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minorities in the region, including mass detentions and surveillance.“
Tsai has publicly defended some of China’s most controversial policies. He described the government’s brutal crackdown on dissent as necessary to promote economic growth; defended a law used to imprison scores of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong as necessary to squelch separatism; and, when questioned about human rights, asserted that most of China’s 1.4 billion citizens are “happy about where they are.”
Matt Turpin, the former China director for the National Security Council, said Tsai is “under significant pressure to be seen as doing what Beijing wants him to do. I don’t necessarily fault him. He’s in this impossible position.”
But he said Alibaba’s support of Megvii and SenseTime and human rights abuses were well documented and should give the NBA pause.
“Last I checked, that’s a pretty abysmal thing to be associated with,” Turpin said. “In today’s NBA, I guess it’s not a problem.”
Last December, the U.S. Treasury Department added Megvii, SenseTime and six other Chinese companies to a separate blacklist that prohibits Americans from holding stock in those firms. A department spokesman accused the companies of “actively cooperating with the government’s efforts to repress members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”
Matt Schrader, the China analyst, said Tsai has a choice, ”Joe Tsai could resign,” , “He doesn’t have to do this. He’s a Canadian citizen. He has the freedom to make that choice so long as Alibaba continues to facilitate and participate in a genocide.”
Then Vice President Mike Pence, who later addressed the controversy in a speech, saying: “The NBA is acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of that authoritarian regime.”
Republicans and Democrats in Congress rallied and railed against the NBA. Silver then issued a statement, acknowledging the league’s first comments “left people angered, confused or unclear” and affirmed the NBA’s commitment to free expression. The next day, a bipartisan letter signed by, among others, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said it was “outrageous that the NBA has caved to Chinese government demands for contrition.”
In a statement provided to ESPN, Silver said, “We have always supported and will continue to support every member of the NBA family, including Daryl Morey and Enes Freedom, expressing their personal views on social and political issues.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with Kyrie Irving
The NBA declined to make Silver available for an interview.
“It doesn’t matter if you call him an entrepreneur, a sports owner or a philanthropist, he is channeling the kind of Chinese authoritarianism into the U.S. with a more soft approach that’s quite daunting,” Law said.
ESPN could find no record of Tsai publicly addressing China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang or Alibaba’s funding of companies whose technology was used by the government in the abuses. But many China experts hold him accountable. NBA China is valued at $5 billion. (ESPN owns 5% of NBA China.)
Like all foreign companies, the NBA operates in China at the whim of the Communist Party.
Neither Silver nor anyone from the league office has commented on human rights abuses in China.
AS HE HAS DEMANDED OF IRVING, TSAI MUST ISSUE AN APOLOGY CONDEMNING THE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN CHINA WITH HIS FUNDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DONATING $500 MILLION TO ANTI-ISLAMIC CAUSES, SATISFACTORILY COMPLETING SENSITIVITY AND TRAINING, MEETING WITH ISLAMIC LEADERS AND KYRIE IRVING!
AGAIN, Tsai’s DISGUSTING activities has now brought into play legally compelling responses requiring legal answers to his involvement in the funding of the Communist Chinese Genocide of Uyghur Muslims, their forced re-education/de-programing, renouncing their illegal Human Rights policy violations, among others, THAT HE AND THE NBA DO NOT WANT TO BE INVESTIGATED, EXPOSED NOR LITIGATED!!
AGAIN, IT IS MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION THAT THERE IS A GREAT POSSIBILITY THAT JOE TSAI AND THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE, AMONG OTHERS, OWE KYRIE IRVING HIS FULL CONTRACTUAL BENEFITS AND FOR THE DAMAGE TO AND LOSS THEREOF HIS NAME, CREDIBILITY, REPUTATION AND EARNING CAPACITY FOR ENDORSEMENTS, ETC.! THE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY THE NETS, THE NBA, AND NIKE THEMSELVES WITH THE ONEROUS PUNISHMENT FORCED UPON KYRIE FOR THE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIONS THAT HE DID NOT COMMIT AND THE FURTHER PERSECUTION OF IRVING WITH THE IMPOSITION OF THE EXTRA JUDICIAL INHUMANE “SIX CONDITIONS” BY JOE TSAI AND THE NETS WITH COMPLICITY OF THE NBA, THAT HE HAD TO CURE TO OVERCOME HIS BEING “UNFIT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM”!!
December 23, 2022
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