NBA-Tensions between China and NBA are 'water under the bridge' - Nets owner

23.02.2024 - 12:25 channelnewsasia.com

HONG KONG : Joe Tsai, owner of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, said the NBA is “in a very good place” in its relationship with China, four years after Beijing took games off air following remarks about the 2019 Hong Kong protests by a team executive.

At a sports convention in Macau on Friday, Tsai said the U.S. basketball league and China, home to 300 million NBA fans, have mended their relationship.

Beijing suspended the broadcast of NBA games in 2019 after Daryl Morey, then general manager of the Houston Rockets team, tweeted in support of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.

Chinese state television only resumed broadcasting games about a year later. “I think the NBA is in a very good place with respect to its relationship with China,” said Tsai, who is also the chairman of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group. “China is actually the NBA’s biggest fan base.

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