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Joe Tsai talks economics of the NBA, entrepreneurship ... and President Trump

In a virtual discussion with students and alumni at Yale last week, Joe Tsai talked about how entrepreneurship is about solving problems, including social ones; the economics of the NBA; how it’s better to take coding classes than French ... and accused President Trump of impugning all Asian-Americans with his descriptions of the coronavirus.

Billed as a “fireside chat,” the talk took place at the Tsai’s Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and was wide-ranging, with its theme “the power of students to lead and create change through innovative thinking.”

in talking about the Nets and the NBA, Tsai revisited a position he’s discussed before, how the league structure insures a somewhat even distribution of wealth (which in the past he’s somewhat jokingly called “socialist.