The nba started getting involved in china during the yoming years, when yoming was the all star center for the houston rockets. And so by two thousand i think it was, it was pretty well firmly intrenched there. The nba ended up losing hundreds of millions of dollars in chinese business when chinese broadcast ers refused to show nba games.
A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her case is changing sports in China.
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