The NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that the association expects to suffer "hundreds of millions of dollars" losses due to the dispute with China, which was raised by a club official's tweet in support of the Hong Kong protests.
In October, the Houston Rockets director general Daryl Murray's tweet met widespread criticism in China, which resulted in the Rockets losing advertising contracts with Chinese companies, and some television channels stopped displaying the most famous basketball league matches in the world.
"The size of the loss will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars ... perhaps less than 400 million," Silver said during a press conference on the sidelines of the All-Star show. The tweet caused criticism at the grassroots and official levels in China.