The ball-less NBA Houston Rockets media officer cut off a CNN reporter asking a question about the freedom of their speech regarding the protests of Chinese human rights violations in Hong Kong.
The reporter starts asking her question, and gets cut off, and then it appears that the Houston Rockets players were instructed not to answer the question.
“The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its players and coaches being able to speak out openly about political and social affairs. I just wonder after the events of this week, and the fallout we’ve seen, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in the future?” – CNN reporter Christina Macfarlane
It’s rare that someone from CNN asks real questions, so when they do, we’d like to see the questions actually answered.
Instead of being able to answer the reporter’s question, and talk about the huge problems going on now with China and Hong Kong, the NBA has given up American Freedom to a Socialist nation, and NBA players are now forced to answer stupid questions about how they liked playing in Tokyo, instead of a real question that people want to hear answers to.
“I love it man. I love coming here. The fans and people are amazing. The food is really good, which I enjoy a lot, and seeing the atmosphere now coming back with my teammates it’s been a great experience. I’m happy we had a chance to be.. to come back and enjoy Tokyo once again. I know my teammates I did. I know they enjoyed it as well.”
If the Holocaust taking place right now, I’m 100% convinced the Democrats and the NBA would be defending Hitler murdering millions of Jews.
A CNN reporter on Thursday was cut off by a Houston Rockets media officer while asking Houston Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook about the ongoing free speech furor surrounding China.
During a press conference in Japan, CNN’s Christina Macfarlane asked Harden and Westbrook if China responding in anger to a now-deleted tweet by Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in support of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong had changed the way they thought about weighing in on social issues.
“The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its players and coaches being able to speak out openly about political and social affairs. I just wonder after the events of this week, and the fallout we’ve seen, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in the future?” asked Macfarlane.
The Houston Rockets media officer is heard off-camera interjecting that the players are taking “basketball questions only.” A man is then seen reaching to remove the microphone from the reporter’s hands.
“It’s a legitimate question,” Macfarlane replied. “This is an event that has happened this week.”
“I understand that. It’s a question that’s already been answered,” the team’s press staffer shot back, before reiterating that only basketball questions were allowed.
Macfarlane then prompted Harden to respond before passing back the microphone, though both he and Westbrook refused to acknowledge the question.
On Monday, Harden, flanked by Westbrook, weighed in on the matter by offering an apology for Morey’s remarks.
“We apologize. You know, we love China. We love playing there,” he said. “For both of us individually, we go there once or twice a year. They show us the most important love.”
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