With the Rockets —and their GM, Daryl Morey— in town, you had to expect that the controversy over Morey’s tweet about Hong Kong protests would resurface.
And it did.
In his first comments since the Nets returned from China, Joe Tsai spoke with Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal, reiterating his main points about Chinese sensitivity to any suggestion of Hong Kong separatism and the right of free expression. He also noted that the Hong Kong protests have turned violent. It was Morey’s tweet supporting the protests that set the Chinese government off .