The former Houston Rockets GM tweeted support for Hong Kong protesters last October. Morey’s resignation on Thursday is currently trending on Chinese social media, with many NBA fans in China happy for his departure.
For the first time in a year, Chinese basketball fans were able to tune in to the NBA on Chinese state television — just in time to watch one of the country's most beloved teams win its 17th championship.
In China this past week, discussions about the NBA have run rampant. At first, the state was happy to allow vitriol to flow against the...
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The NBA supports its constituents’ speech rights in precisely the way that the Communist Party, which actually has constituents, does not. Let’s give commissioner Adam...
Two days after the NBA groveled to Chinese fans over a tweet by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey that supported Hong Kong protesters and sparked outrage...
By attacking the NBA, China exposed the more unsavory aspects of its authoritarian ways to a wider segment of the American mainstream. Now gamers are...
The NBA is wildly popular in China, with about 800 million Chinese watching games last season, and many basketball players and teams becoming household names. But after a single tweet set off a firestorm last Friday, the future of the NBA in China is in jeopardy. We explain what’s at stake.