China drops Philadelphia 76ers broadcasts as Hong Kong row continues

The Guardian(UK) ^ | 12/30/2020 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

Chinese streaming giant Tencent has stopped live broadcasts of games by the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers in apparent protest at their new president Daryl Morey, who sparked a row by voicing support for Hong Kong protesters last year.

Tencent has been offering text updates only for Sixers games as well as those involving the Houston Rockets, Morey’s former employer. It also refused to screen Rockets games last season.

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[Kid Shelleen]

I can see why the American Left loves China so much.

[dragnet2]

[Zhang Fei]

Glad to see Morey landed on his feet.

[EEGator]

Slow Joe and the ho will patch things up soon.

Morey is White, and thus racist.
He will be replaced by Whoopi Goldberg.

[Theoria]

[EEGator]

Apparently he’s the NBA version of Brad Pitt/Jonah Hill of Moneyball fame.

[line drive to right]

Daryl Morey has more courage and conviction than all but a very few of our republican U.S. senators.

[Night Hides Not]

Where are LeBron and Adam Silver? This is outrageous.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I don’t understand all the NBA ties to China. Why should we care, or be outraged, if 76ers games won’t be broadcast in China?

[untenured]

Where are LeBron and Adam Silver? This is outrageous.

Preoccupied supplicating to the CCP

[cowboyusa]

Good. I will watch my hometown Sixers, and the rest of the league can go to heck.

[ZOOKER]

Why should we care, or be outraged, if 76ers games won’t be broadcast in China?

Good question. I assume there's a financial aspect: If they don't broadcast the games, the NBA/76ers don't get paid. So I can see why the NBA would be outraged.

I, on the other hand, am not outraged in the least. If they broadcast none of the games nowhere, and nobody gets paid, I'm good.

[lightman]

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[tired&retired]

Let’s just sell them the NBA franchise and ban it from USA.

[bluebell12]

Guess NBA wanta the CCP to harvest their organs, one day.

[DoodleBob]

Why should we care, or be outraged, if 76ers games won’t be broadcast in China? Good question. I assume there's a financial aspect: If they don't broadcast the games, the NBA/76ers don't get paid.

Possible, but then there is merchandise - no broadcast = no buzz = no 76er jersey sales.

Nike reported a growth in sales of 9.5% to over $1 billion. In 2016, Adidas' sales grew by 22% to approximately $3 billion in China. According to a Euromonitor study, with $28.4 billion in sales, China's sporting goods industry is the second biggest market in the world behind the USA with sales of $103.6 billion. In terms of growth, China's 11% is significantly higher than the 5% recorded in the rest of the world.

[Fresh Wind]

For that matter, why should anyone care if their games are broadcast in the US?