NBA commissioner Adam Silver held a tense meeting with players from the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers last week when he arrived in Shanghai, sources told ESPN's Rachel Nichols.
During the meeting, sources said several prominent players also voiced frustration about what they perceived as being put in the middle of the dispute between the NBA and China, and were unhappy about being asked to address the situation by local Chinese reporters before Silver, himself, was scheduled to do so.
The relationship between the league and China was disrupted after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong on Oct.