Silver: NBA, USA Basketball still may play in 中国 in 2020
CHICAGO (AP) - The NBA and USA Basketball are still considering playing in 中国 later this year, though the 複雑さs of both the political 不和 原因（となる）d by a tweet last 落ちる and the 現在進行中の health 関心s in the world´s most populous country are making those 計画（する）s seem decidedly uncertain.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the discussions in both 事例／患者s - pre-Olympic games for USA Basketball and the preseason games for the NBA - are 現在進行中の, and said the 決定／判定勝ち（する）s are not やむを得ず linked. It´s possible the U.S. may play there this summer and the NBA does not send teams this 落ちる, Silver said.
"Those are 問題／発行するs that 港／避難所´t been decided yet," Silver said Saturday night at his 年次の All-星／主役にする 週末 news 会議／協議会.
Things are not 支援する to normal for the league when it comes to relations with 中国. The 緊張する started Oct. 4, when Houston general 経営者／支配人 Daryl Morey tweeted an image that read "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong," 言及／関連ing several months of プロの／賛成の-僕主主義 demonstrations in the semiautonomous Chinese 領土.
The tweet wasn´t up for long. The fallout was 大規模な and continues. A pair of preseason games between the Brooklyn 逮捕するs and Los Angeles Lakers in 中国 were played days after Morey´s tweet, though without the support of several sponsors and with both teams playing in silence - 非，不，無 of the customary pre- and 地位，任命する-game マスコミ availabilities were held. The Chinese Basketball 協会 一時停止するd its 関係 with the ロケット／急騰するs, Chinese マスコミ 巨大（な） Tencent and Chinese 明言する／公表する television pulled some NBA broadcasts and Silver said the NBA quickly began experiencing 重要な 財政上の losses.
Silver said it´s possible the NBA could lose as much as $400 million in 歳入 this year because of 攻撃する，衝突するs to the 中国 market.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver 明かすs the NBA All-星／主役にする Game Kobe Bryant 最高殊勲選手 Award during a news 会議／協議会 Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
"Our games have not returned to CCTV, the 政府 放送者," Silver said. "My sense is they will at some point in the 未来. We are not 圧力（をかける）ing them. It´s a 決定／判定勝ち（する） that is outside of certainly our 支配（する）／統制する and I´m often not even sure where that 決定／判定勝ち（する） lies."
The NBA and Chinese 公式の／役人s have been talking, or at least were talking until much of the Chinese 資源s were redirected toward 取引，協定ing with COVID-19, a 病気 stemming from a new form of coronavirus.
Basketball, understandably, has been 押し進めるd aside while the Chinese を取り引きする a 大規模な 危機.
"This game of basketball is a 抱擁する game, and I've been blessed and fortunate enough to travel to 中国 a number of times," All-星／主役にする Chris Paul of the Oklahoma City 雷鳴, who also is 大統領，／社長 of the 国家の Basketball Players 協会, said on Saturday. "A friend of 地雷, Pooh Jeter, plays over in 中国, and I 現実に wrote `Wuhan´ on my shoes the other night in a game in New Orleans. (But) this isn't just a Wuhan problem. It's an everyone problem."
Wuhan is the city at the 中心 o f the 突発／発生. 中国´s 政府 一時停止するd most 接近 to Wuhan on Jan. 23. 制限s have 拡大するd to cities with a total of 60 million people in the broadest anti-病気 対策 ever 課すd. Restaurants, shops and other 商売／仕事s 全国的な were ordered to の近くに.
Through Friday, 中国 報告（する）／憶測d a total of 66,492 事例／患者s of the ウイルス, 公式に 説 it was 責任がある 1,523 deaths. Japan -- which will play host to this summer´s Tokyo Olympics -- 報告（する）／憶測d about 259 事例／患者s through Friday, with one death.
International 競争s in at least 14 different sports have been 影響する／感情d by the ウイルス and the resultant 関心s. Tokyo Olympic 組織者s and the International Olympic 委員会 have 主張するd that there are no 計画（する）s to 取り消す or relocate the games.
"It´s impossible to 予報する which direction this 疫病／流行性の will take," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.
It also makes it impossible to 予報する when 事柄s between the NBA and 中国 return to normal.
In other 事柄s Silver 演説（する）／住所d Saturday:
KOBE AWARD
The NBA is すぐに 改名するing the All-星／主役にする 最高殊勲選手 トロフィー in 栄誉（を受ける） of Kobe Bryant, the 18-time All-星／主役にする who - along with his daughter Gianna and seven others - died in a ヘリコプター 衝突，墜落 in Southern California last month.
All-星／主役にする 週末 has taken on a somber トン this year, 大部分は because of 多重の 尊敬の印s for Bryant and NBA Commissioner Emeritus David 厳しい, who died Jan. 1.
"I know it will be 特に meaningful to that player that 勝利，勝つs the first Kobe Bryant 最高殊勲選手," Silver said. "So I'm sure there will be other 栄誉（を受ける）s 同様に, and as I について言及するd, there are other things that we will be discussing with our board, the NBA board, when they 会合，会う in April to 栄誉（を受ける） David. But this one seems so appropriate here at All-星／主役にする because nobody 具体的に表現するd All-星／主役にする more than Kobe Bryant."
SCHEDULE CHANGES
Silver said he remains 楽観的な that schedule changes he has 手配中の，お尋ね者 - inclu ding an in-season tournament - are viable 可能性s.
The NBA was 的ing 追加するing such a tournament in 2021-22, the league´s 75th 周年記念日 year. But 計画（する）s for an April 投票（する） on such a change were （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd weeks ago, and the 時刻表／予定表 is uncertain.
"I may have been a little naive in thinking that for the 75th 周年記念日, we could say let's make all these changes," Silver said. "We'll sort of see what happens in the 75th 周年記念日, and we'll go from there."
All-星／主役にするs 投票d by The Associated 圧力（をかける） earlier Saturday about the 可能性のある of schedule changes were 大部分は supportive of the notion, though the 大多数 also said they do not know enough about the 計画（する）s to have a strong opinion.
"I don´t know. I mean our season is already long," said Portland guard Damian Lillard, who is 行方不明の the All-星／主役にする Game with an 傷害. "I think if we´re playing for something that would count, I can see it 存在 承認する, but there´s a price for everything."
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver u nveils the NBA All-星／主役にする Game Kobe Bryant 最高殊勲選手 Award during a news 会議／協議会 Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
