Watch: LeBron James Gives Surprising Response To Daryl Morey’s Tweet About China Issue

The NBA got into a thing with China, and it all started with Daryl Morey and his support for China. Many players shared their opinion on the situation, including Lakers star LeBron James.

LeBron took a shot at Morey, saying he wasn’t “educated” about the issue.

“I don’t want to get into a … feud with Daryl but I believe he wasn’t educated about the situation at hand and he spoke,” he said. “So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually. Just be careful what we tweet … even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech. But there can be a lot of negative that comes with that too.”

This triggered an avalanche of reactions, and LeBron had to clear things up.

“Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet. I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that.”

This was followed by another tweet.

“My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.”

According to Sports Illustrated, LeBron made a mistake. They think he should have picked a different side, adding that these words don’t really work in his favor. SI added that Morey’s tweet wasn’t too radical.

“First and foremost, LeBron had enough time to be better with his statement. He failed to live up to the standard of his own eloquence here. James could have stuck to certain tacts—like player safety, perhaps—and still protected his business interests in China, if that was ultimately his main objective. Calling Morey “misinformed” and bringing up the financial aspect ultimately hurt James. The simplest option would have been for LeBron to say, “I support free speech.” Who knows what LeBron actually thinks about Hong Kong. I don’t know! I do know a lot of Americans criticizing James in the aftermath of his comments weren’t thinking about Hong Kong for even one second of their day as recently as two weeks ago.”

The situation looks really bad at this point. LeBron and his team met with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. He wanted to clear the situation in order to start off the regular season without any problem.