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China Fans Cheer NBA Stars As Free Speech Row Rages

A worker removes an NBA promotional banner from a building after China shut down NBA sponsorships and telecast plans following a tweet by an NBA club executive supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong
The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets faced off Thursday before adoring Chinese fans in an exhibition game overshadowed by a free-speech row ignited when an American basketball executive expressed support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.Questions had swirled over whether the game, the first of two planned in China, would proceed after a tweet last Friday by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thrust the world's top basketball league into the centre of an escalating China-US dispute.
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