Daryl Morey Tweets About Hong Kong

Daryl morey s tweet supporting hong kong protesters set off a pro china troll mob on twitter that resulted in notifications flooding his phone at nearly two per second according to a.

Daryl morey tweets about hong kong. The nba and the houston rockets are embroiled in a tenuous situation with china over a since deleted tweet from general manager daryl morey regarding protests in hong kong. After general manager daryl morey expressed support in a since deleted tweet for pro democracy efforts in hong kong the chinese government the chinese basketball association and various chinese. Protesters clash with police during a protest in kowloon in hong kong china on october 6. By the end of the weekend chinese officials had asked nba commissioner adam silver to fire morey for his remarks.

Daryl morey s original tweet included an image captioned. According to the new york. But the hong kong demonstrators have spent the past 18 weeks confronting the nba. So any backlash among chinese fans to morey s tweets would.

Daryl morey and houston rockets owner tilman fertitta reportedly failed to address any fallout over the hong kong tweet controversy that took the nba by storm last year. Stand with hong kong but the coach backpedalled after a fierce criticism from chinese fans sponsors and commercial. 4 2019 morey tweeted an image that read fight for freedom stand with hong kong within an hour rockets owner tilman fertitta clarified with his own tweet that the team is not a political organization but that wasn t enough to stop the backlash from china. Morey departed of his own choice after.

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