{"id":851467,"date":"2019-10-08T07:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=851467"},"modified":"2019-10-08T07:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:08:17","slug":"nba-commissioner-says-league-will-support-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=851467","title":{"rendered":"NBA Commissioner says league will support freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chinese-state-tv-halts-nba-preseason-china-game-broadcasts\/18684212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2019\/10\/07\/18683166\/5d9b81859d15d-media_d46b3d808ef945c2afd016d92ce2deee-DMID1-5kener3hi-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NBA_China_Relationship_Basketball_79677\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey&#8217;s since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, even after China&#8217;s state broadcaster canceled plans to show a pair of preseason games in that country later this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chinese-state-tv-halts-nba-preseason-china-game-broadcasts\/18684212\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chinese-state-tv-halts-nba-preseason-china-game-broadcasts\/18684212\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NBA Commissioner says league will support freedom of speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey&#8217;s since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}