The National Basketball Association said Friday it will not hold any media availability for the rest of its preseason trip in China. This comes amid the controversy following remarks Houston Rockets Gm Daryl Morey made last week in support of demonstrators in Hong Kong.
“We have decided not to hold media availability for our teams for the remainder of our trip in China,” the NBA announced in a statement Friday to ESPN. “They have been placed into a complicated and unprecedented situation while abroad and we believe it would be unfair to ask them to address these matters in real time.”
The league is making this decision independent of Chinese authorities, ESPN reported, citing sources.
The decision comes after Beijing mandated that no news conference be held before or after Thursday’s preseason exhibition game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets.
The second and final game in...
“We have decided not to hold media availability for our teams for the remainder of our trip in China,” the NBA announced in a statement Friday to ESPN. “They have been placed into a complicated and unprecedented situation while abroad and we believe it would be unfair to ask them to address these matters in real time.”
The league is making this decision independent of Chinese authorities, ESPN reported, citing sources.
The decision comes after Beijing mandated that no news conference be held before or after Thursday’s preseason exhibition game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets.
The second and final game in...
- 10/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The National Basketball Association continued to dig deeper into a public relations hole today, as an executive shut down a question from a CNN anchor on the league’s China problem.
CNN’s Christina Macfarlane was cut off at a Japan press conference after an exhibition game between the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. The Rockets have been at the center of a dispute that started when one of its executives, general manager Daryl Morey, tweeted support for the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.
Macfarlane attempted to ask Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook whether they would feel comfortable speaking out on political and social issues in the future after the uproar from China in reaction to Morey and the events of this week. The unidentified Rockets media relations person stopped them from answering – even though Harden appeared ready to respond – saying that “basketball questions only” were the only permissible path.
CNN’s Christina Macfarlane was cut off at a Japan press conference after an exhibition game between the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. The Rockets have been at the center of a dispute that started when one of its executives, general manager Daryl Morey, tweeted support for the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.
Macfarlane attempted to ask Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook whether they would feel comfortable speaking out on political and social issues in the future after the uproar from China in reaction to Morey and the events of this week. The unidentified Rockets media relations person stopped them from answering – even though Harden appeared ready to respond – saying that “basketball questions only” were the only permissible path.
- 10/10/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
A reporter with CNN was stopped on Thursday as she tried to ask James Harden and Russell Westbrook about the ongoing China controversy in which the league has been ensnared.
Journalist Christina Macfarlane was in the middle of asking the Houston Rockets stars whether they were thinking twice about speaking out on political issues following the NBA's response to a pro-Hong Kong tweet sent by a Rockets manager at a presser after the Toronto Raptors and Rockets game in Chūō-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, Japan.
Someone offcamera told her the query was not appropriate. Her response: "It is a ...
Journalist Christina Macfarlane was in the middle of asking the Houston Rockets stars whether they were thinking twice about speaking out on political issues following the NBA's response to a pro-Hong Kong tweet sent by a Rockets manager at a presser after the Toronto Raptors and Rockets game in Chūō-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, Japan.
Someone offcamera told her the query was not appropriate. Her response: "It is a ...
- 10/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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