[LRoggy]

I don’t agree with that. The owner (Tilman Fertitta) pretty much publicly smacked his GM down but the NBA Commissioner took the high road in this when it would have been easier to put the league’s pocket book first.

There must have been a lot of contacts with the league headquarters reminding the NBA that most of their money still comes from this side of the ocean. James Harden looks particularly bad right now, looking like he traded one master for another.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe I'm just seeing this differently. I think the commissioner "took the high road" because there was no downside to taking the high road and no upside to taking the low road. He may have come out with a high-minded statement about "free speech," but you'll notice that he didn't say the Twitter message should be restored.

If anything, his first reaction to the public announcement from Sen. Rick Scott was probably something along these lines: "What are you dragging the NBA into this for? This is an internal issue for the Houston Rockets to deal with."