NBA Caught Up in Hong Kong Protests: Bloomberg
NBA Caught Up in Hong Kong Protests: Bloomberg
Read the article from Bloomberg News about China’s response to a Tweet from a NBA general manager.
Read more about how basketball became popular in China when the Houston Rockets recruited Yao Ming in 2002.
Sports, patriotism and nationalism go hand in hand. Howard Bryant wrote for ESPN in 2013: “The industry that once avoided the complex world now embraces it, serving as the chief staging ground for expressions of patriotism, and has codified it into game-day identity. A dynamic that was supposed to be temporary has become permanent. The atmospheres of the games are no longer politically neutral but decidedly, often uncomfortably, nationalistic.”
The National Basketball Association touted its Chinese connections in September: “Such deals didn’t happen overnight.”
(Source: CNN Business and NBA)