Brian Lewis, the only member of the Nets beat writers to accompany the team to China, took to the streets of Shanghai Friday before the Nets left that city to find out how Chinese fans were reacting to the NBA’s tumultuous week
Bottom line, Lewis found, was that, “it’s just so complicated. Very, very complicated,” as one fan told him. Indeed, not all fans Lewis approached even wanted to talk and those who did didn’t want him to use their names.
There was, Lewis writes, differing degrees of anger over Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting Hong Kong protests.