# Daryl Morey NBA executive, a pioneer of basketball analytics ("Moreyball"), then general manager of the Houston Rockets and later president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers. In October 2019 his tweet supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests ("Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong") triggered a major rupture between the [[NBA]] and China, exposing how dependent the league had become on the Chinese market. The episode is a key case study in the Right Wing KB on corporate self-censorship under Chinese economic pressure. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound wikilinks. Expand with the China-revenue fallout and the speech-vs-market dynamics.