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As China's backlash to Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's tweet in support of a free Hong Kong continues, the man who sparked it has publicly addressed the situation. Morey tweeted a statement Sunday saying he didn't intend to offend Chinese fans and sponsors and that his opinion on Hong Kong is his and his alone, echoing Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta's attempts to distance Morey's statement from the team's bottom line. Nowhere in the statement does Morey outright apologize, but it is clearly meant to at least partially douse a fire that has already cost the Rockets a fortune in China.

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