In a dramatic escalation of a political storm, which began when the Houston Rockets general manager expressed support for protests in favor of democracy in Hong Kong, the CCTV sports channel said Tuesday that it had "decided to suspend immediately" the broadcasts of the preseason games of the American basketball league in China after underlining their "great dissatisfaction" with the response of the NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, to Daryl Morey's tweet.
China will not broadcast NBA preseason games
2019-10-08T20:20:31.615Z
In a dramatic escalation of a political storm, which began when the general manager of the Houston Rockets expressed support for protests in favor of democracy in Hong Kong, the channel of ...