NBA commissioner Adam Silver says financial losses in China 'substantial' 'fairly dramatic '

[underpants]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the league is already dealing with "fairly dramatic" financial consequences from Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey's support of Hong Kong's anti-government protesters.

"The losses have already been substantial," Silver said at the Time 100 Summit, in his first public comments about the NBA's relationship with China since he returned to the U.S. from China earlier this week. "Our games are not back on the air in China as we speak, and we'll see what happens next.

"I don't know where we go from here. The financial consequences have been and may continue to be fairly dramatic."

"We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business," Silver said. "We said there's no chance that's happening. There's no chance we'll even discipline him."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27867216/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-says-financial-losses-china-substantial

[Dirty Socialist]

1. Oh well

Communist China can SUCK it.

[rockfordfile]

2. China trying to tell us what to do? lol

[UniteFightBack]

3. This country (still) has free speech so FUCK OFF CHINESE GOV'T. nt

[randr]

4. Let the Chinese people tell their rulers

what they want to see. Let the Oligarchs suffer the consequences of their actions. I recall that the NBA was prosperous with millionaire owners before China became a market.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Money trumps peace, baby.

I mean, “democracy.”

[TeamPooka]

6. "Waaaaah, the dictators aren't sending us any money." Fuck you NBA, twice.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Life sucks...

and then you die.