empathy. this is not the first time this has happened. the league has tip toed around comments made by players and executives supporting chinese dissidents like the uighurs and hong kong protesters. the nba has a huge foot hold in china. china is extremely popular there and the league has a large monetary incentive to keep the ccp happy. think of this. the cctv there has banned nba games from air costing the nba roughly $400 million. now, there's a statement from the golden warriors distancing itself from their minority owner that owns about a 10% stake. but choosing not to acknowledge the root of the controversy saying "as a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the warriors, mr. palihapitiya does not speak on behalf of our franchise". someone that did take it on is ennis cantor freedom. he offered this tweet.