The NBA Fan Silenced for Protesting China Speaks Out

‘These are not American values’

Max Ufberg
GEN
Published in
4 min readOct 10, 2019

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The NBA’s China controversy has made protestors out of its fans.

A tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey expressing his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong prompted sharp condemnation from Chinese authorities and an apology from the NBA for Morey’s “regrettable”

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Max Ufberg
GEN
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Writer and editor. Previously at Medium, Pacific Standard, Wired