A Net positive

After Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey voiced support for the people of Hong Kong in their time of need, the franchise botched its response. Happily, the Brooklyn franchise — owned by a Taiwanese-Canadian businessman who happens to disagree with Morey, while affirming his right to speak — is properly handling a surge in fan support for those demanding freedom and self-determination.

So far.

With the NBA season starting today, Nets fans must now keep up their drumbeat, and despite his personal politics, owner Joe Tsai must continue his hands-off approach.

The team that plays for the cradle of freedom, the Philadelphia 76ers, failed the earlier this month. So did the team in the nation’s capital. Out west, the league’s most important player, LeBron James — who relishes his own opportunities to dive into American politics — took the wrong side in the fight.

So, it seems, it now falls to basketball fans and executives in the nation’s largest city, home to nearly 600,000 Chinese Americans, to teach a civics lesson. (The city’s largest Chinatown, in Sunset Park, is where the Nets train and are headquartered.)

Friday night, hundreds of fans at Barclays Center wore “Stand With Hong Kong” tshirts, held signs and chanted. They weren’t ousted. They weren’t threatened. They weren’t silenced.

In China, where there’s no such thing as a free press, feelings remain raw, and the Communist regime looks for new opportunities to strike back.

Let them bluster. There are larger principles at stake. The Rockets come to Brooklyn