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Brooklyn Nets' Theo Pinson, left, drives against Los Angeles Lakers' Danny Green near a Chinese national flag during a preseason NBA basketball game at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. In response to the NBA defending Daryl Morey's freedom of speech, Chinese officials took it away from the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets. All of the usual media sessions surrounding the Lakers-Nets preseason game in Shanghai on Thursday â including a scheduled news conference from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and postgame news conferences with the teams â were canceled. It was the latest salvo in the rift between the league and China stemming from a since-deleted tweet posted last week by Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets.

Beltway Confidential

The China-NBA debacle is doing an amazing job of flushing out fake social justice warriors

Becket Adams · October 10, 2019 8:42 pm

Cantley, QuÃ©bec, Canada - March 12, 2008 (iStock/Valerie Loiseleux)

Beltway Confidential

ESPN warns staff against disparaging Chinese communism

Becket Adams · October 9, 2019 3:05 am

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during a welcome reception for the NBA Japan Games 2019 between the Toronto Raptors and the Houston Rockets in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.

ESPN ordered hosts to stay silent on Hong Kong protests after NBA-China fight

Tim Pearce · October 8, 2019 9:57 pm

Jemele Hill is seen at the 2019 Essence Festival at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Friday, July 5, 2019, in New Orleans.

Atlantic writer argues that ‘black athletes’ should ‘leave white colleges’

Mike Brest · September 6, 2019 2:55 pm

Beltway Confidential

No Dodging This Miracle

Jason Russell · August 9, 2019 3:00 am

ESPN host blasts network's decision to limit political topics on the air amid 'send her back' chants

Mike Brest · July 19, 2019 11:48 am

Ohio State defensive lineman Nick Bosa runs a drill during the NFL football scouting combine.

NFL hopeful hides support for Trump as draft nears

Zach Halaschak · April 11, 2019 12:06 am

In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, political pundit Keith Olbermann leaves a taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman," in New York.

Olbermann calls open season on the rural South

Salena Zito · April 2, 2019 1:03 pm

President Trump talks to the press about the table full of fast food in the State Dining Room of the White House.

Beltway Confidential

Everything is racist: White House burger buffet edition

Becket Adams · January 16, 2019 11:51 pm

Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten appears at a press conference.

Ex-Cowboy Jason Witten attributes roughing-the-passer calls to NFL’s move to ‘left wing’

Daniel Chaitin · September 25, 2018 4:59 pm

Texas A&M quarterback Regie McNeal looks to pass while under pressure from Clemson defender Gaines Adams in the first quarter in College Station, Texas, Sept. 18, 2004.

Red Alert Politics

College football Week 2: Three games to watch

Noah Niederhoffer · September 8, 2018 1:00 pm

Brady wrote in a blog post Friday that Jemele Hill, "SportsCenter" anchor at ESPN, was in the wrong and put her employer in a difficult situation. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP)

Jemele Hill out at ESPN: Report

Joe Williams · August 26, 2018 7:05 pm