Tencent makes Boston games unavailable on websiteNBA has been subject to blackout in
China in the pastHighlights and livestreams of Boston Celtics games have been erased from the NBA’s Chinese broadcast partner after one of the team’s players attacked government policy in Tibet.
Enes Kanter, the team’s veteran center, spoke out on what he called “cultural genocide” in Tibet, and called China’s leader,
Xi Jinping, a “brutal dictator”. It also prompted a rebuke from China’s foreign ministry which accused him of “clout-chasing”.