NBA commissioner Adam Silver stated that the doors would be open to play league games in China again. The conversations to carry out this proposal would be advanced to materialize in the near future.
The NBA has not organized games on the Asian continent since 2019, when the general manager at the time of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, made some controversial statements related to a situation in Hong Kong, which caused tension between the league and the Asian country. .
“I think we will take games to China again at some point (…) The Chinese government took us away for a period. We accept it. “We continue to defend our values,” Silver said at a sports management conference at Columbia University.
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Likewise, the commissioner also stated his position about the freedom of opinion that people have about various topics, including political ones.
“Everyone in our league has the right to talk about political issues,” the commissioner said during his speech.
The tensions between the league and the Asian country brought with them various repercussions, especially economically. China stopped broadcasting NBA games from 2019 to 2022, when the negotiations opened and NBA games were broadcast again on television stations in the Asian country.
During the ban on NBA game broadcasts in China, the American league suffered a considerable economic decline by not reaching Asian users.
