至于NBA在事件发酵后的一系列表现，作者直言他们这是在“走钢丝”。

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美国福克斯新闻的体育记者Jason Whitlock也在节目上表示，这一事件让美国球迷们认识到中国对NBA赛事的影响有多大。

“You see NBA players constantly over the summer during their offseason running to China to do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in the China market，” he said。

他说：“你会看到NBA球员在休赛期不断地跑到中国，为他们代言的球鞋站台，并在中国市场销售。”

“So， the NBA is really being exposed as not nearly as much of an American business than it is a global business with China perhaps having more influence over it than even America。”

“所以，NBA实际上并不是一个美国企业，它是个全球性企业，而中国对它的影响力可能比美国还大。”

The NBA is trying to walk a tightrope。 After an initial league statement was criticized for being too beholden to the Chinese authorities， NBA Commissioner Adam Silver defended Morey‘s right to send the tweet in a statement Tuesday in Tokyo。 He said that the league would not pursue profits over principles。

NBA正打算走钢丝。联盟最初的一份声明被批过于依附中国。周二，总裁亚当·肖华在东京发表声明，为莫雷发送这条推文的权利进行了辩护。他说，联盟不会为了利润而舍弃原则。

“The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players， employees and team owners say or will not say，” Silver said in the statement。 “We simply could not operate that way。”

肖华在声明中说：“NBA不会限制球员、员工和球队老板说什么或不说什么的。”“我们是不能那么运作的。”

But that only escalated the dispute with Chinese authorities。 CCTV Sports， a division of China‘s state broadcaster， said it would not broadcast preseason games set to be played in China， including one between the Brooklyn Nets and the LA Lakers later this week in Shanghai。

但这些话只会火上浇油。中国官方电视台CCTV体育频道宣布，将不会播出在中国进行的季前赛，包括本周晚些时候在上海举行的布鲁克林篮网队和洛杉矶湖人队的比赛。

Tencent Sports （TCEHY）， which is the NBA‘s exclusive digital partner in China， said it would suspend live streaming for Houston Rockets games， and stop reporting any news about the team。 Nearly 500 million people in China watched NBA programming on Tencent platforms during the last season， according to the companies。

腾讯体育是NBA在中国的独家数字合作伙伴，它表示将暂停休斯顿火箭队比赛的直播，并停止报道任何与该球队有关的新闻。据透露，在上个赛季，中国有近5亿人在腾讯平台上观看了NBA节目。

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