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Ted Cruz: “The NBA blocked him out and shut him out because they cared…”

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And then actually he ended up getting fired because he spoke out against the Chinese communist oppressing the Uyghurs, having concentration camps of over a million people. And The NBA blocked him out and shut him out because they cared more about selling NBA, the NBA to China than they did about human rights. And so even though Cantor was still like a top performing center in the NBA, he immediately became shunned in this instance, look, I tweeted out in response to Ennis is. (31:25–31:34)

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Asserts the NBA prioritized business with China over human rights, leading to Ennis Cantor's exclusion.

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