{"id":206865,"date":"2025-10-12T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:04:09","slug":"treading-fine-line-nba-money-machine-kicks-into-gear-on-china-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206865\/","title":{"rendered":"Treading Fine Line, NBA Money Machine Kicks Into Gear On China Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"emotion-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The NBA brought star-studded lineups to Macau this week for the league&#8217;s return to China after six years but many of the biggest wins happened off the basketball court, industry insiders and experts told AFP.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"standard_index_p\">The Barron&#8217;s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to <a class=\"article-disclaimer__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">AFP.com<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA brought star-studded lineups to Macau this week for the league&#8217;s return to China after six years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,23130,99,512,53573,590,84,85,31350],"class_list":{"0":"post-206865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basket","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-macau","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-synd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}