A preseason game went on as scheduled in Shanghai, if lacking some of the normal pageantry
After murmurs of cancellations and an ongoing discussion of how the NBA should handle political speech, the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets played their preseason game as scheduled in Shanghai on Thursday. The stands were mostly full, and nothing more remarkable happened thanFor a while it seemed possible the game wouldn’t happen at all. A swiftly deleted tweet by Houston Rockets general managerof not only the NBA’s relationship to China, but also that of American businesses more broadly.
Meanwhile, Chinese businesses lined up to cut NBA sponsorships. State television network CCTV said it wouldn’t broadcast the preseason games, and streaming giant Tencent said it would no longer air Rockets content. From there, the NBA scrapped its media sessions and open practice ahead of Thursday’s games. Outside Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, workers removed a banner advertising the contest, and cranes throughout the city did the same.
saying that the NBA should suspend “activities in China until government-controlled broadcasters and government-controlled commercial sponsors end their boycott of NBA activities.” The Lakers and Nets are scheduled to play in China again on Saturday. It seems safe to assume that game will go on as this one did, but it doesn’t leave the future of the NBA’s relationship to China much clearer. As has been pointed out ad nauseam these last few days, if at times in bad faith, the league has long enjoyed its reputation as the most progressive of North American sports’ big four.
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