Nba Commissioner China Tweet

Former nba basketball player yao ming is the president of the chinese basketball association which announced over the weekend it is suspending ties with the houston rockets in retaliation for a.

Nba commissioner china tweet. But in the face of china s belligerent reaction to the tweet the nba cravenly. Nba commissioner adam silver is so woke he once outlawed the word owner for being racially insensitive. Nba commissioner adam silver voiced his apologies to china over a now deleted tweet but said that the nba would stand by its principles.

After an initial league statement was criticized for being too beholden to the chinese authorities nba commissioner adam silver defended morey s right to. It comes after rockets general manager daryl morey tweeted. The brooklyn nets and los angeles lakers in shanghai immediately following the tweet found themselves sucked into the storm as nba commissioner adam silver was able to temper enough minds to see.

Think of that number as one humungous incentive to keep china happy. Nba commissioner adam silver issued his first statements since houston rockets general manager daryl morey tweeted support for the hong kong protesters which led to significant backlash in china. In an interview last year the league s deputy commissioner mark tatum revealed nba china which manages everything nba related in the country was worth more than 4 billion.

The nba is trying to walk a tightrope. A day after nba commissioner adam silver said chinese officials wanted morey fired a spokesman for china s foreign ministry told reporters that no such demand was made by the government there. The chinese government didn t like it.