Two and a half years after buying the Nets, the billionaire personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and play by its rules.
Two and a half years after buying the Nets, the billionaire personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and play by its rules.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is questioning the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) reported new deal with Chinese state television, the latest official to raise concerns over the league’s relationship with the Chinese regime.
The NBA famously drew the wrath of the Chinese communist regime in late 2019 after then-Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Chinese businesses cut ties with the league, and state broadcaster CCTV stopped airing games.
But Chinese media recently reported that CCTV will resume regular broadcast of the NBA starting with the All-Star Game on March 7.
“Commissioner Silver cut a deal to air NBA games on the same station that regularly broadcasts Communist propaganda and forced prisoner confessions,” Blackburn told The Epoch Times in an email, referring to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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