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‘Epidemic of Sellouts’: NBA Players’ Shoe Deals With Chinese Brands Linked to Forced Labor Draws Criticism

The Epoch Times

By Eva Fu

February 23, 2022 Updated: February 23, 2022

 

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” wrote retired NBAplayer Dwyane Wade on Twitter in June 2020.

The tweet, coming out amid mass protests over the death of George Floyd, pictured the basketball player holding a pair of black shoes with the slogan painted over in capital letters: “enough is enough.”

The account that posted the message was Wade’s sneaker brand “Way of Wade,” which is owned by Li-Ning, a Chinese sports brand that has fallen under scrutiny for endorsing Beijing’s handling of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, where the regime has waged a repressive campaign against Uyghurs that the United States has described as a genocide.

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