{"id":486826,"date":"2024-10-11T02:52:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486826"},"modified":"2024-10-11T02:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:52:35","slug":"adam-silver-optimistic-about-bringing-nba-back-to-china","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/adam-silver-optimistic-about-bringing-nba-back-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver optimistic about bringing NBA back to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed optimism about the possibility of bringing NBA games back to China after relations were severed five years ago due to a political controversy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey publicly supported the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which led to China canceling several scheduled preseason games and imposing an 18-month ban on televising NBA games in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Columbia_SPS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Columbia_SPS<\/a> sports conference <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBA<\/a> commissioner Adam Silver said &#8220;I think we will bring games back to China,&#8221; and added that the league stood by its values after the Daryl Morey situation a few years back. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/novy_williams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@novy_williams<\/a> was in attendance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iWHW9G1WdN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iWHW9G1WdN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportico (@Sportico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportico\/status\/1844486979066659105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a sports management conference at Columbia University in New York, Silver said, &#8220;I think we can bring games back to China in some form.&#8221; He acknowledged the ban but emphasized that the NBA continues to uphold its values, including the freedom for individuals within the league to speak on political issues.<\/p>\n<p>The last NBA game in China was played in October 2019 between the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a><\/a>. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the league has been hosting preseason games in Japan and Abu Dhabi, along with regular-season games in Paris and Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed optimism about the possibility of bringing NBA games back to China after relations were severed five years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486827,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19717,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19718,23350,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The last NBA game in China was played in October 2019 between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486828,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486826\/revisions\/486828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486826"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486826"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}