NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during a welcome reception for the NBA Japan Games 2019 between the Toronto Raptors and the Houston Rockets in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.The NBA will not regulate speech and won’t apologize for a controversial tweet from a Houston Rockets executive that has sparked a Chinese backlash, the organization’s commissioner said Tuesday.
“Morey enjoys that right,” he added, speaking at a press conference in Japan where the Rockets are playing two exhibition games this week. China is the NBA’s biggest market outside the United States, and the Rockets are hugely popular there, harking back to their signing of Chinese star Yao Ming, who Silver said was “extremely upset” about Morey’s tweet.Silver acknowledged that the controversy was having significant consequences — it has largely overshadowed a trip meant to help boost the brand in Japan and China — but said the organization would have to “live with those consequences.
“Of course I would like people associated with the NBA to be sensitive about other people’s cultures, I think saying that by no means suggests we are going to regulate their speech,” he said.
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