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Sources: NBA returns to China with Nets-Suns preseason games

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The NBA will return to China for the first time since 2019 with two preseason games in Macao between the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns in October, sources told ESPN on Thursday.

The return is the culmination of a yearslong process to repair the relationship between the NBA and China following commissioner Adam Silver and the league's support for freedom of expression after then-Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image that supported protests in Hong Kong in October 2019.