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    Michael Hiltzik: In caving to the Chinese, the NBA reminds everyone that it's a business like any other

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Oct 07, 2019 4 minutes

    Fans, pundits, free speech advocates, even members of Congress have been piling on the National Basketball Assn. for its craven genuflection to the Chinese government over a tweet Friday by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey.

    Morey's tweet expressed solidarity with the Hong Kong protesters who have bedeviled Beijing for months. The tweet read, "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong." It has since been deleted, leaving in its wake increasingly abject backpedaling by Morey, his team owner and the league itself.

    All this chatter in public statements and follow-up tweets has amounted, in its way, to a public service. It reminds us that

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