Commissioner Adam Silver believes the NBA could stage games in China again, five years after a conflict over the Hong Kong democracy protests prompted a backlash against the league by Chinese broadcasters. "I think we will bring games back to China at some point," Silver said Thursday at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in New York. "China's government took us off the air for a period of time. We accepted that. We stood by our values. ... Anybody in our league has the right to speak out on political matters." In 2019, then- Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey posted a message on social media in support of anti-government protests in Hong Kong. That set off a firestorm of controversy for the NBA in the lucrative Chinese market and a disagreement over Silver saying in 2019 that Chinese officials wanted Morey fired. China refused to broadcast two preseason games that were held in the country between the Los Angeles Lakers and ...