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"While investigations into the origin of COVID-19 continue in Wuhan, the NBA seems solely focused on mending its relationship with CCTV even though it's clear Communist China will distort, censor or terminate any CCTV broadcast that is seen as a threat to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)," she says in the letter.

NBA games will return to the Chinese television network after they were banned for the entirety of the 2019-20 season because former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey (now with the 76ers) tweeted his support for Hong Kong. It took some serious sucking-up from the NBA in order for CCTV to agree to broadcast the games once again, and now it's time for their reward.

It looks bad, and the NBA knows it.

Just last month, teams around the league celebrated the Chinese New Year on the same day Mark Cuban attempted to remove the pregame national anthem at Dallas Mavericks games. Another bad look.

The scathing letter from Blackburn is certainly worth your time. Check it out here.

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