Beijing Pulls The Plug: China Cancels NBA Broadcasts Amid Outrage Over Hong Kong Tweet

And the NBA even bowed deeply to the Chinese Communist/crony capitalist regime.

(From Zerohedge)

Adding yet another layer of conflict to the US-China relationship (in addition to trade tensions, there’s also Hong Kong and Taiwan, the South China Sea, etc.), China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, said it would end broadcasts of NBA games in China, ensuring that the spat that exploded out of nowhere when Daryl Morey tweeted (then swiftly deleted) a message of support for the Hong Kong protesters. Despite the league’s insistence that Morey didn’t speak for either the Houston Rockets nor the NBA as a whole, Commissioner Adam Silver’s later defense of Morey (after coming under intense public and political pressure) and his right to freedom of expression inflamed tensions with Beijing.