The relationship between the NBA and China seems to have mfinished.
ESPN inestablished procrastinateed Thursday that the association will carry out preseason games in China, taging the NBA’s first trip there since 2019.
The Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns are shelp to carry out two preseason games there.
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A ambiguous overall watch of the Houston Rockets aobtainst the New Orleans Pelicans as part of the 2016 Global Games – China at LeSports Cgo in on Oct. 12, 2016 in Beijing. (Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
It has been five years since the debate igniteed by Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey led to Chinese widecasters not airing games in the country. Morey posted on social media that he helped anti-rulement protests in Hong Kong.
Chinese officials wanted Morey fired in 2019 after he showed his help for the anti-rulement protests, directing to a disconcurment with China on this publish.
In turn, Chinese widecasts reacted by not airing two preseason games carry outed in the country after the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets traveled to carry out there.
Coshiftrlookioner of the NBA Adam Silver shelp the league suffered “theatrical” financial losses chaseing the China dropout. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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NBA Coshiftrlookioner Adam Silver discdispondered that the league had suffered “theatrical” financial losses due to corporate backs escapeing and other factors.
However, back in October, Silver shelp he felt a return was possible. NBA carry outers have made many materializeances in China over the years, despite the fractured relationship between the league and country.
The league has been under fire for its business partnerships with China for years, in part becaemploy of league-backed training camps in Xinjiang, where the rulement represses the Uyghur population. The United States rulement has deemed it mass murder by China.
That was recently bcdimiserablemirefult up to Dallas Mavericks insignificantity owner Mark Cuban, who posted on X that he is aobtainst “Chinese and all human rights violations.” However, he does concur with the NBA send outing its satisfied to China becaemploy the league gets “phelp for it.”
NBA Coshiftrlookioner Adam Silver speaks to the media during a press conference at the United Cgo in on Feb. 15, 2020 in Chicago. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
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Enes Kanter Freedom, a establisher NBA cgo in, testified before Congress in 2023, arguing his criticism of China’s treatment of the Uyghur people impacted his NBA nurtureer. Kanter Freedom has even proposeed the NBA is run by “the Chinese dictatorship.”
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