And now let’s all kneel for the racist national anthem.

American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the complaints.

The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.

A former league employee compared the atmosphere when he worked in Xinjiang to “World War II Germany.”

Oops. That’s awkward.

Time to roll out more Black Lives Matter jerseys. And let’s make sure that they’re manufactured by slave laborers in China.

In an interview with ESPN about its findings, NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer Mark Tatum, who oversees international operations, said the NBA is “reevaluating” and “considering other opportunities” for the academy program, which operates out of sports facilities run by the Chinese government.

Other opportunities like involuntary organ donations and the breeding programs that produced Yao Ming.

No, I’m not joking. It’s a Communist dictatorship.

 Yao’s birth had been anticipated for decades by communist officials – desperate to boost national pride through sports – who had been tracking his family for two generations.

He describes a system where doctors armed with special growth-predicting manuals measure youngsters’ bones and pubic hair to identify future athletes. Weightlifters must be squat with strong torsos; divers need tiny hips to minimise splash; basketball players must simply be tall

Yao’s grandfather, one of Shanghai’s tallest men, was discovered too late for basketball but his son, the 205cm Yao Zhiyuan, soon found himself dragged into the sports system.

There he was paired off with the 182cm Fang Fengdi, China’s women’s captain who had been a feared Red Guard during the murderous Cultural Revolution.

The two were encouraged to marry in a system with undertones of eugenics, the controversial gene-pool manipulation espoused by the Nazis and previously trumpeted by Beijing.

The giant infant, who was just eight years old when he reached the average Chinese male’s height of 171cm, was recruited for basketball despite his parents’ objections and his own hatred for the sport.

The eight-year-old Yao embarked on a program of intense, repetitive training under disciplinarian coaches who offered little encouragement or variety.

Meanwhile, scientists fed him a steady stream of mysterious concoctions designed to make him taller, raising the spectre of possible hormone treatment at a time when China was suffering a series of doping scandals.

After this sort of thing, it comes as a complete surprise to everyone in the NBA that Chinese basketball training camp is a horrible nightmare.

One former coach described watching a Chinese coach fire a ball into a young player’s face at point-blank range and then “kick him in the gut.”

“Imagine you have a kid who’s 13, 14 years old, and you’ve got a grown coach who is 40 years old hitting your kid,” the coach said. “We’re part of that. The NBA is part of that.”

And if they fail, they can be put to work making Black Lives Matter jerseys for the NBA.