speech. morey's tweet set off a firestorm in china after he tweeted his support for hong kong protesters. china demanded a clarification of the tweet which has since been deleted and the nba responded by calling the post regrettable. the chinese government responding to the nba saying it's not going to work if you have exchanges and cooperation with china but don't understand chinese public opinion. many u.s. politicians on both sides of the aisle slammed the nba's response. republican senator josh holey writing a scathing letter accusing the league of putting potential profits in china over human rights. later tweeting that the nba should apologize for groveling to chinese communist party and cancel all exhibition games until the situation in hong kong is resolved peacefully. >> they should understand that if they yield one time then the pressure will be greater. and it is very typical for the chinese authorities to ask more