CCTV is expressing its protest by stopping broadcasting NBA games since October 2019 because NBA players openly supported the anti-sending China movement in Hong Kong.
The Global Times English edition on Tuesday (23) quoted Chinese sports journalists as saying that CCTV will resume broadcasting the NBA from March 8, with the first live broadcast of the All-Star Game.
The Global Times report said that CCTV did not broadcast this season’s games earlier because it was in the process of signing a broadcasting contract with the NBA. CCTV has not responded to this yet.
The news has been widely discussed on the Internet. Some netizens said “it’s good to have CBA to watch”, “I’ve stopped watching the US basketball long ago, it’s not broadcast”; but some netizens criticized “the Americans were right, it won’t take two years for the Chinese to pretend that nothing has happened “The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.
In October 2019, Daryl Morey, former general manager of the Houston Rockets, uploaded a picture on Twitter showing his solidarity with Hong Kong’s anti-revision movement, with the words “Fight for freedom, Stand with Hong Kong” in the picture, setting off a The incident was followed by a post from CCTV Sports. After the incident, CCTV sports channel issued a statement, decided to suspend all cooperation and exchange matters involving the Rockets event broadcast, banned the broadcast of NBA events, the incident led to the NBA in China losses close to $ 400 million.
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