NBA commissioner Adam Silver told AFP on Thursday that there was "tremendous interest" as the league returns to China six years after being frozen out of the country.

Star players and NBA executives have travelled to Macau this week for two pre-season games, the first in China after an acrimonious split in 2019 over a team official's tweet in support of Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.

"We are experiencing as great enthusiasm for the game as we ever have in China," Silver said on the sidelines of an event co-hosted by the league's global social responsibility programme.

Macau is a special administrative region of China close to Hong Kong and the only place in the country where casino gambling is legal.

Asked if sell-out games between the Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns on Friday an

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