Cotton urges NBA to force Warriors part-owner to sell over Uighur comment

“Woke CEO Chamath Palihapitiya said no one cares about the Chinese Communist Party’s mass enslavement, torture, and rape of religious minorities,” Mr. Cotton said in a press release. “He may be so callous that he doesn’t care about genocide, but the American people do.”

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The senator said that the “NBA has investigated owners and forced a sale after outrageous comments before, and it even moved the All-Star game to protest a North Carolina law saying boys and girls shouldn’t use the same bathroom.”

In April 2014, the NBA banned for life Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling over racist remarks made in an undercover audio recording. His family sold the team a few months later.

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