(FILES) A worker removes a promotional banner from a building for the National Basketball Association (NBA) October 10 preseason game in China between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai on October 9, 2019. The NBA returns to the lucrative China market October 2025 with two pre-season games following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The world's second-biggest economy effectively cut ties with the league in 2019 after NBA executives stood behind then-Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP) / To go with AFP story Basket-NBA-Macau-China-politics-US, ADVANCER by Holmes Chan and Tommy Wang (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)