The Houston Rockets Fiasco: Free Speech or Finance?
Nov 4 · 4 min read

The quick take: On 8 October, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for the Hong Kong protests. The NBA had an exclusive partnership with Tencent to stream this season to an estimated 500 million fans in China, a market for which the business is estimated worth $4 billion to the NBA. After the tweet — and the support for Morey’s “freedom of political expression” by NBA…

