The teams did practice and some players participated in a Special Olympics-related NBA Cares event, though one planned for Tuesday didn’t go ahead. A tweet last week from an executive with the Houston Rockets—which are popular in China but not in the country this week—set off a political storm as it praised antigovernment protesters In Hong Kong. Backlash against the NBA sparked by a tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters shows how tricky it is to do business in China—and the difficult line companies must tread. The Nets are owned by a co-founder of Chinese online merchant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , Joe Tsai. A man wearing a LeBron James T-shirt stands outside a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai, China on Tuesday.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 09, 2019 09:35 UTC