Quoth the craven ...

Well, not "Nevermore" in this case.

More like, "Well, it's a complex situation."

Or, "(Some people) are either misinformed or not really educated on the situation."

Or, "Dammit, there's an IMMENSE PILE OF CASH at stake here."

Of course, no one in the NBA would ever say No. 3 out loud. No. 2, however?

LeBron James just said it.

Said Houston Rockets' GM Daryl Morey was "either misinformed or not really educated on the situation" when Morey sent out a mild tweet of support for Hong Kong protestors, which got the Chinese all lathered up and sent everyone in the NBA into DefCon 1 cringe mode. Because, yes, there is an immense pile of cash to be had in the Chinese market, which is why the Association spent a week letting itself be humiliated in every way possible by the Chinese government.

And now here was LeBron, who has actually spoken out on non-basketball issues when it didn't stand to dent his wallet, saying, well, gosh, it's not up to poor old misinformed, uneducated us to comment on Chinese politics. Because after all, we're all just basketball players/coaches/execs.

Which of course is exactly the opposite of what he said when right-wing harpy Laura Ingraham was telling him to "shut up and dribble" after LeBron spoke his mind about Our Only Available President. Of course, criticizing OOAP was not going to jeopardize piles of cash, for him or anyone else in the Association.

Wonder if LeBron or anyone else in the league would finally stand up on their hind legs and speak out if the Chinese government was to just start slaughtering protestors wholesale. Better yet, wonder what they would have said in 1989 when this photo went viral during the Tiananmen Square uprising.

Your three choices:

A) "Well, see, that student was jaywalking ..."

B) "Those tanks had the right of way and were just peaceably making through their way through the square to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home from work."

C) "Sure, it looks like a lone student facing down a column of student-mashing tanks, but it's a complex situation and to comment on it would be either uninformed or not really educated."

Your correct answer is "D." As in, "All of the above."