Former NBA coach and NBA analyst Stan Van Gundy is the latest prominent league personality to run interference for China, complaining that asking the NBA about China distracts from “our own poor record on human rights.”

“We committed genocide against Native Americans. We have enslaved, lynched, segregated and incarcerated blacks over 400 years,” Van Gundy said, responding to an Orlando Sentinel opinion piece slamming the NBA. “Women couldn’t vote for 140 years. Using abuses elsewhere to try to distract from our own poor record on human rights is dishonest.”