With the NBA season tipping off on Tuesday, there are two issues very much at the forefront of teams’ thinking across the league. Several teams are negotiating rookie contract extensions with their NBA draft class of 2016, while the entire league is monitoring the impact of the ongoing situation with China.



The NBA is still dealing with the aftershocks of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong tweet on Oct. 4 that unnerved the Chinese government — with the fallout including canceled NBA events in China, lost sponsorship money for players and commissioner Adam Silver meeting with the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets that featured LeBron James and other players speaking out.



It has continued even after the teams returned to the U.S., with James’ controversial comments made to the media about Morey on Monday and commissioner Silver admitting at the Time 100 Health Summit on Thursday that the league’s losses as a...