uhuh keep back tracking also when things get really bad the federal government gets involved a combination of police training, community outreach and weeding out high complaint officers show drastic improvement in statistics of police brutality and violence. What's your explanation? did black cultures in those areas magically change not police?
The obvious difference is that the NBA knows that decent Americans disagree about politics without actually wanting to financially punish others. Not watching basketball because of a political opinion is a ridiculous move.
Of course, kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party is pathetic and has all the optics of saying, "well, Nazis buy shoes too".