New York Times basketball writer Sopan Deb has identified the real problem with the NBA’s capitulation to China’s genocidal regime: conservatives who condemn it.

Deb took to Twitter to complain that Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter was only attacking NBA star LeBron James for his pitiful pandering to the Chinese Communist Party, even though Kanter has teammates who signed with Nike. Deb then expanded his complaint to conservatives writ large, who he accused of going after LeBron while ignoring Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta.