The general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team apologised on Monday ...
BEIJING - The general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team apologised on Monday for a tweet in support of Hong Kong protests, saying he did not intend to offend fans in China, where business partners halted work with the NBA team.
“I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China. I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event,” Morey tweeted, adding he had now considered other perspectives.The Rockets are widely followed in China, partly because they drafted Yao Ming in 2002, who became a star and helped build the NBA’s following in China.
“We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together,” it said.“As a lifelong @HoustonRockets fan, I was proud to see @dmorey call out the Chinese Communist Party’s repressive treatment of protesters in Hong Kong,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz said on Twitter.
Neither statements said whether the decisions were permanent. The pressure on the Houston Rockets has not purely been about business. The Chinese Basketball Association, chaired by Yao, said it was suspending “exchanges and cooperation” with the Rockets.
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