Houston Rockets sneakers and other merchandise were pulled from several Nike sto...
) stores in major Chinese cities amid the furor surrounding a tweet from the team’s general manager in support of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
Although Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has since apologized for his tweet last week, National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver further angered authorities when he said the league backed Morey’s right to exercise his freedom of expression. Three Nike stores in Shenzhen also kept Rockets merchandise off the shelves, as well as NBA products in general, staff told Reuters by phone. Three Nike stores in Chengdu, a bustling inland city in southwest China, also removed Rockets products.A specialist NBA store at Super Brand Mall, a major shopping center in the Shanghai financial district of Lujiazui, has also removed all Rockets-related merchandise.
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