Nick Geddes
Videos by OutKick
In an appearance on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) had some choice words for the NBA.
“And I’ll tell you something right now: The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has bigger balls than the NBA,” Cruz said.
Cruz is referring to WTA chief Steve Simon suspending WTA events in China following the disappearance of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai. Shuai went missing after alleging that a high-ranking Chinese government official raped her, as written by OutKick’s Joe Kinsey. While Shuai has since been located, it is unclear whether she still faces oppression and censorship from the CCP.
“I am announcing the immediate suspension of all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong,” Simon said. “In good conscience, I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly been pressured to contradict her allegation of sexual assault.
“Given the current state of affairs, I am also greatly concerned about the risks that all of our players and staff could face if we were to hold events in China in 2022.”
Cruz directly mentions the NBA, which has come under fire for its silence on matters going on in China. Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom has also spoken out against Lakers forward LeBron James and Nike for their hypocrisy on social issues.
“They stand for Black Lives Matter in America — amazing. They stand for the Latino community. No Asian hate. They stand with the LGBTQ community,” Freedom said on Tuesday. “But when it comes to some of the countries out there, like China, they remain silent. Obviously they are using these players to become the face, like Cristiano Ronaldo for soccer, LeBron for basketball, and some other athletes. But they’re becoming puppets.
“I feel like we need to be careful of what we are wearing, because every time you put those items on your feet or back, there’s so much blood or sweat or oppression on those items.”
By the WTA pulling events out of China, the tour figures to lose a lot of money. Simon said the WTA and China had been working on the largest and most significant Finals deal in the 45 years since the WTA was founded.
In 2019, tournaments held in China totaled $30.4 million in prize money, including $14 million for the WTA Finals.
Follow Nick Geddes on Twitter @NickGeddesNews and on Instagram @nick.geddes.
This coming from the same guy who left the citizens of Texas during a blackout and families without electricity or water …. Fuck Ted Cruz
Sincerely
Hoop Culture
Ball is making an ass of himself again. Let’s all sit back and watch his racist little ass rant.
Cruz is the man!
Ut oh…AWM fragility alert
Laughing White Man.
That’s some high quality political response there Ball boi.
What was he supposed to do, get out there with a hair dryer and melt the ice for everyone? Brainwashed Clown go lick Le-Fraud’s slave-made shoes some more.
Hoop culture, aka Ghetto culture, no thanks. Degenerate.
And on cue, we have ‘ball’ out defending LeBron’s Chinese plantation.
chocolate felon alert.
get that LeBron jizz out of your mouth boy
Silly Glenn
Ball Lies has Ted Cruz fragility. You are the dumbest and weakest man on the planet. Grow up.
Balls Don’t Know Shit or Balls the Size of M&Ms. I think one of those names is more fitting.
My favorite part of Balls is that he has Kaepernick as his logo. Absolutely priceless.
Balls in mouth,
Dip shit, Pathetic tree-huggger wind turbines left Texans without power. Ted Cuz as a US senator, although optically poor going on vacation , holds no power over state infrastructure.
I know your HBCU specializes in cannabis , basketball and finger painting but other kids learn about the differences between state and federal powers in elementary school. here’s a gold star ⭐️, smiley face 😊 and some weed 🚬 for giving it the old HBCU try though 👍🏻
Like your specialty is school shootings and making kiddie porn while getting busted in the kitchen during a How To Catch a Predator episode. #DylanRoofJr
I’ll yield to your superior knowledge and experience with shootings and kiddie porn.
One angry negro right there lol lol
Balls on chin might be the person we’ve been looking for that is even less intelligent than Joy Reid.
Time to ignore Ball Don’t Lie.
Nah, he is pure comedic gold. Perfect example of racist nut job.
The NBA doesn’t care. Their viewership is almost exclusively Democrat voters now.