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4. China doesn't like the NBA anymore

Chinese state TV maintains blackout of NBA games as season resumes

China’s state broadcaster CCTV maintained its blackout of NBA games as the American basketball league resumed on Friday, extending a freedom-of-speech stand-off that stretches back more than nine months.

Although Chinese internet giant Tencent streamed the NBA’s return from a four-month coronavirus shutdown, the world’s most popular basketball competition remained inaccessible to China’s TV audiences.

CCTV suspended all broadcasts of NBA matches in October after a Houston Rockets executive tweeted in support of Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, unleashing a firestorm of criticism in China.

The NBA commands a huge following in China – its biggest and most lucrative market outside of the US – and the subsequent fall-out has cost the league more than $300m in revenue.

The Guardian
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/31/chinese-state-tv-maintains-blackout-of-nba-games-as-season-resumes