Commissioner Adam Silver says the Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets general manager Daryl Morey after he voiced support for the Hong Kong protestors in a tweet earlier this month. Silver,
though, says the league responded to the demand by saying, "There's no chance that's happening. There's no chance we'll even discipline him." A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson rebuked Silver's
statements saying, "the Chinese government never posed this requirement." Silver did admit the NBA has begun to experience financial problems in China.