BRK Nets Owner Tsai Tried to get Morey Fired

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qk8MYb...Xx5LBCBYgg&t=1275&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes

At 21 minutes is where the comments start:

So now you’ve got this dynamic in which Morey’s being attacked , Tsai is responding in the way he’s responding, and the league is trying to find some middle ground here or figure out how it can exist even as two exhibition games are about to be played in China. And part of our reporting finds out that behind the scenes - though Tsai and the NBA deny this vehemently - behind the scenes, Tsai was seeking to get Morey fired.”

Remember the LeChina/LeMao memes? Well they weren't totally unfounded.

”I don’t think people knew this at the time. There were these games that were about to be played in Shanghai, one of the teams that’s there to play is the Lakers, with LeBron of course. There’s an international incident happening in real time in front of these guys, and there are meetings that happen between the players and the commissioner as well as the players themselves.”

”LeBron has got his new movie Space Jam that’s about to open, it’s in production. The hope - at the time at least - was that it was going to open in China. So behind closed doors, the players are meeting and asking how are they going to deal with this, what are they going to do. LeBron was quite vocal in raging about Morey, and how something needed to happen to Morey.”

Having a fellow NBA owner conspire to fire a general manager over comments regarding free speech (in order to appease the CCP) is a REALLY bad look. At least it is to me. 

In what context is that ever okay? What if the CEO of Apple got really mad over something a mid-level employee did at like Starbucks and tried to get them fired? Of course this will never truly be verified, but if it does, should/could the NBA take any actions regarding it?