The National Basketball Association said on Friday it won't make the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers available to media for the rest of their China visit, amid a furore over a tweet by a Houston Rockets executive supporting Hong Kong's protesters. The teams had been scheduled to address news conferences on Friday afternoon in Shenzhen, ahead of Saturday's exhibition game in the southern Chinese city on the border with Hong Kong that the league says will proceed as planned. "We have decided not to hold media availability for our teams for the remainder of our trip in China.
UPDATE 4-NBA scraps media access to teams in China amid HK tweet backlash
Published October 11, 2019 at 3:50 AM
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