The potentially massive financial implications for the NBA surrounding Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s controversial tweet supporting protestors in Hong Kong, and China’s negative reaction to it, are impossible to ignore.



Simply put, there are maybe billions of dollars at stake for the NBA, and, millions at risk for the Rockets, who for now have lost their relationships with Chinese businesses offended by Morey’s tweet that read: “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.”



All of this is happening at a particularly awkward time for the league, which sent two of its teams — the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers — to Shanghai and Shenzhen for exhibition games this week.



They’re on the ground in China already.



Late Sunday night, new Nets owner Joseph Tsai, who was born in Taiwan and whose parents were born in mainland China, sought to explain why Morey’s comments are such a big deal,...