NBA players face questions over shoe deals with Chinese companies linked to forced labor

January 28, 2022

AT THE HEIGHT of protest over the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, one of retired NBA star Dwyane Wade’s Twitter accounts posted: “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”

The tweet from an athlete celebrated for his social justice advocacy was perfectly in character. The account that it came from, however, promotes Wade’s clothing line with Chinese sports apparel company Li-Ning, which the U.S. government has accused of abetting human rights abuses.

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