NBA总经理Silver在纽约的发言，挺值得看一下的。今早听到一个说法，中国人爱钱也“爱国”，美国人爱钱也爱自由。既然都爱，那么就得有取舍。从一种爱到另外一种爱，就是范式的转换，NBA是否能完成这种转换，非常重要。

NBA’s Silver Says China Crisis Brought ‘Substantial’ Losses

NBA lost local partners in fallout over executive’s tweet

Chinese interests sought Morey’s firing for tweet, Silver says

By?Riley Griffin?and?Eben Novy-Williams

(Bloomberg) –?

The?National Basketball Association’s crisis in China, triggered by the?Houston Rockets?general manager tweeting support for Hong Kong protesters, has already cost the league “substantial” losses.

“The financial consequences may go on and be fairly dramatic,” Commissioner?Adam Silver?said Thursday at the Time 100 Health Summit in New York. But the league is willing to take on the costs to support free expression, he said.

Adam Silver speaks during a news conference in Saitama, Japan, on Oct. 8.

The NBA was plunged into turmoil earlier this month after the Rockets’?Daryl Moreyposted the tweet in support of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. He soon deleted the message, but China took umbrage and the NBA’s sponsors in the country cut ties with the league. Silver further inflamed tensions at the time by supporting Morey’s right to free speech,?telling?reporters that the league wouldn’t police what people can say.

Silver said that Chinese interests asked for Morey to be fired for the tweet.

“We said there’s no chance that’s happening — there’s no chance we’ll even discipline him,” said Silver, a longtime NBA executive who became commissioner in 2014.

It all happened on the eve of two NBA preseason games that were played in China. Though they went ahead as planned, local broadcasts were canceled in China and partners pulled out.

One of the biggest lingering questions was how severe the financial fallout would be. T