Posted on 09/05/2020 8:01:16 AM PDT by md1986
The first game of the NBAs Western Conference semifinals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets was banned in China.
On Friday, Tencent Chinas official NBA broadcasting partner revealed that it would not air Game 1 due to the controversial tweets made by Rockets general manager Daryl Morey back in October of last year.
At the time, Morey tweeted out his support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong with a message reading Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong. He would subsequently delete the tweet, but the damage was done.
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100% true. The league has been fixed for years, ever since the San Antonio Spurs kept winning the title and tanking the ratings.
Interesting. Perhaps the refs will throw the games to get the Rockets out of the playoffs.
Somebody should document this.
Politics and sports don’t mix, figure it out, sports teams.
SORRY LEBRON YOUR CHINESE assisting failed tell them we support increased slave torture and lower wages we millionaires in the mba marxist basketball association need our money to go to the fanciest restuarants
Who is Lebron supporting in the upcoming Chicom elections?
Useful idiots like LeBron don’t now the history of the movement he supports. Very sad
Useful idiots like LeBron don’t now the history of the movement he supports. Very sad
BINGO and the felons are not amused.
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