During the anti-revision movement in Hong Kong last year, the Rockets general manager Molly supported the movement on his personal social network. He later resigned for family reasons and ended his 14-year guest-host relationship with the Rockets. Last month, he was appointed by 76 people as the president of the basketball affairs department. Promotion in disguise. Molly was interviewed with a new title. When asked about last year’s controversy, he was silent for a few seconds and replied: “I feel very comfortable with what I have done. I do feel worried, but fortunately there are different people helping me and teaching me how to face it. Yes, make myself relatively safe.” He refused to elaborate on the threats he received at the time, but said he “offended the second largest regime in the world.”
He also admitted that he was worried about not being able to work in the NBA again: “In the past 12 months, I have wondered from time to time whether I can no longer work in the NBA. Although it is the reason I am willing, I also love my job and don’t want this to happen. “
Molly’s remarks in support of the anti-regulation movement in October last year caused an uproar. The NBA was boycotted by the mainland and was once banned by China Central Television (CCTV). Sponsorship from China was greatly reduced. The league reportedly lost US$400 million (about 31 100 million Hong Kong dollars) in revenue, until the fifth game of the NBA Finals at the beginning of October this year, CCTV did not repeat the event.
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“I had moments where I thought I might never work in the NBA again …”
Daryl Morey told ESPN after he shared a post expressing support for a protest group in Hong Kong last October. https://t.co/BlbkEpSO4M
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) December 23, 2020
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