Photo by Rich Arden / ESPN Images(NEW YORK) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged on Thursday the “fairly dramatic” financial consequences the league is facing in the wake of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
“The losses have already been substantial,” Silver said, speaking at the Time 100 Summit. The remarks were Silver’s first since returning from China where he and a pair of teams were on a preseason exhibition tour.
“Our games are not back on the air in China as we speak,” Silver explained, “and we’ll see what happens next.”
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