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Differently about the rocket snz. >> just okay. i didn't change my opinion. i still like harden and -- but maybe i won't watch them too often. >> reporter: they're just starting to turn off the lights on the court behind me wrapping up the evening pick-up games here. john, basketball has a pretty long history here in china. it goes back decades. the love for the game intensified in 2002 when zyao mike was signed by the rockets. now he's the president of the chinese basketball association here. the same group that has severed ties with his former team. john? >> he may have also, i'm going to ta...

Most. >> all right. jeff zeleny, thank you much for the reporting this morning. joining us now mark mckinnon and jess mcintosh. and mark, i have to say, i've heard both arguments on the joe biden front. people like david and others say what joe biden's wanted all along is to have this be a one-on-one fight here with president trump here. that provides an opportunity if and only if biden rises to the occasion. but has he? >> well, the bad news is that aerve in politics knew this moment was going to come about hunter biden. it's surprising he didn't come out of the blocks on this. you prepare fo...

By the national basketball association, the nba, it came after a tweet by the general manager of the houston rockets which has created this international relations dispute. it all had to do with the protests in hong kong and outraged chinese. david cully ver is live in beijing with the latest on this. david? >> all of this as you point out started with that one tweet and it has lit up state sponsored media here, social media here as well. government-backed newspapers are slamming the nba for not taking immediate harsh punishment against the rockets' general manager and on-line, you've got folk...