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2 Games in the NBA were played on March 10th 2022. 76ers vs Nets and Warriors Vs Nuggets. Here is my personal recap of both games. I watched them both and discuss the ins and outs of both games.

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It is Just Not The Same Without Curry in The League. Being my favorite player I am really missing him https://kukuwesteu4.blob.core.windows.net/production-kuku-attachment-images/7092346feae7d6815947fb0ef6bea5379c1f1e2f7180b0a03c2dcf9f44865a55/1573321973_9331517372.mp4

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Utah Jazz Win At Home Last Night Against the Bucks. Big Win For The Jazz For Sure and A Solid Team In The Tough Western Conference. https://youtu.be/qsUX9zKjKWg

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Top 10 In the NBA for Nov 8th 2019 --- Here are your top plays. Which one was your Fav? Mine Was #2 The Game Winner https://youtu.be/uvyqVZFxSqc

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Lakers Looked pretty solid last night against the Heat. I see Lebron is playing point forward a lot and acting as the facilitator. https://youtu.be/HpTCUKzFKdY

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52 Points For D'Russell --- Dang he was seriously ballin last night. Bummer the Warriors came up a bit short in the game against the Timberwolves https://youtu.be/4Aa6EuWFIow

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Wow what a night in the NBA Last night--The Celtics Continue Their Awesome Play and The Battle of the Unknowns Goes to the Miami Heat for Toppling The Suns https://youtu.be/C2anblze22k

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Here are the Top 5 Plays in the NBA For Nov 7th. Funny As I called the Dunk when it happened and new it would be # 1 https://youtu.be/5KRkmlSkAJI

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Portland Trail Blazers vs Dallas Mavericks - Full Highlights | October 2...

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Giannis Antetokounmpo says he would’ve won NBA title if #Bucks beat Raptors in Game 3 of ECF --- Me Thinks Maybe This Year https://clutchpoints.com/#Bucks-news-giannis-antetokounmpo-says-he-wouldve-won-nba-title-if-milwaukee-beat-raptors-in-game-3-of-ecf/

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BREAKING: Suns’ Deandre Ayton Facing 25-Game Suspension For Violating NBA’s Anti-Doping Policy https://www.totalprosports.com/2019/10/24/breaking-suns-deandre-ayton-facing-25-game-suspension-for-violating-nbas-anti-doping-policy/ #NBA #Ayton #Phoenix

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First 3 Days In The NBA--WHOA WHAT DID WE LEARN?

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The tweet was sent while NBA teams were in China for preseason games. http://j.mp/32NEQdK #Shutup #NBA #Barkley

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Charles Barkley Says VP Mike Pence 'Needs to Shut The Hell Up' About The NBA, China

This is pretty damn funny. I have to admit that Charles is not afraid to say how he feels. I was watching this live on TNT last night and was surprised how he pushed the envelope on this. Seeing that he has a big audience and all the political correctness and sensitivity there is today around anything, I was wondering if there was going to be any backlash from the statements that Barkly made live on TNT. I guess not!

  The NBA season kicked off this week with one of the league's most-recognizable TV studio analysts sticking up for the organization. Charles Barkley on Thursday night basically told Vice President Mike Pence to shut up and legislate while the league dribbles into the season.

A rift between the NBA and China began when Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted his support of democracy for the people of Hong Kong. The tweet was sent while NBA teams were in China for preseason games.

The league and U.S. lawmakers have been at odds over the NBA's position with China over recent remarks by Morey. Some NBA administrators and top stars have voiced opinions slanted to favor China, which has drawn the ire of lawmakers. On Thursday, Pence made his voice clear on the standoff.

"Some of the NBA's biggest players and owners, who routinely exercise their freedom to criticize this country, lose their voices when it comes to the freedom and rights of other peoples," Pence said. "In siding with the Chinese Communist Party and silencing free speech, the NBA is acting like a wholly-owned subsidiary of the authoritarian regime."

During TNT's pregame show Thursday night, Barkley, a Hall of Fame player, member of the original Dream Team Olympic squad and who was named to the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of All-Time, slammed Pence before tipoff Thursday night.

He sent a message to the vice president of the United States to "shut the hell up." He said this while NBA commissioner Adam Silver sat on the TNT set Thursday night, according to Yahoo Sports.

"Vice President Pence needs to shut the hell up, number one," Barkley said. "All American companies are doing business in China. I thought the criticism of commissioner Silver and LeBron James was unfair. Daryl Morey—who I like—he can say whatever he wants to. But there are consequences.

"I don't understand why these holier-than-thou politicians—if they're so worried about China, why don't they stop all transactions with China? President Trump has been talking about and arguing with tariffs for China for the last two years. I think it's unfair for them to do all their business in China and just because this thing happens try to make the NBA and our players look bad. All American companies do business in China. Period."

Charles Barkley speaks at the podium prior to his sculpture being unveiled at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility on September 13, 2019 in Camden, New Jersey. Getty/Mitchell Leff

Just last week, after a week of silence since the Rockets GM's tweet, LeBron James finally spoke out, saying the Morey "wasn't educated" on the issues in China. James, who's the biggest star in the NBA, drew criticism for his statement that many say supported the communist regime and oppression in China.

"We all have freedom of speech, but at times, there are ramifications for a negative that can happen," James said to reporters. "I don't want to get into a feud with Daryl, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke. Some of the people have been harmed, and not financially but physically, emotionally and spiritually."

James' comments did not sit well with his supporters.

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  This whole incident continues to feud daily as now we are crossing over sports with politics on a regular basis. Doesn't seem that there is any way to get away from this today. Everything is so tracked that people are just waiting to create a story and pounce on anything that anyone says.

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What Happened To The Rockets Last Night?

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Pence directed some of his harshest words at sports apparel giant Nike (NKE.N) and the NBA, which he accused of siding with China's Communist Party over freedom of speech in Hong Kong. https://nbalivechat.tumblr.com/post/188585232774 #China

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Pence backs Hong Kong protests in China speech, slams NBA and Nike - Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong and blasted U.S. company Nike and the National Basketball Association for falling in line with Beijing in a disagreement over free speech.

In a major policy speech on China that touched on an array of disputes ahead of talks with Beijing to ease a trade war, Pence said the United States does not seek confrontation or to “de-couple” from its main economic rival.

But he pulled no punches when addressing some of the political rifts between the two countries.

Criticizing China’s construction of a “surveillance state,” and “increasingly provocative” military action, Pence held up Taiwan’s Democracy as a better path for Chinese people and took Beijing to task for its handling of pro-democracy protests that have rocked Hong Kong for more than four months.

“Hong Kong is a living example of what can happen when China embraces liberty,” he said. “And yet, for the last few years, Beijing has increased its interventions in Hong Kong and engaged in actions that curtail the rights and liberties that Hong Kong’s people were guaranteed through a binding international agreement.”

He said the United States stands with the protesters in Hong Kong, millions of whom have taken to the streets in sometimes violent clashes over what they see as China’s tightening grip.

“We stand with you, we are inspired by you. We urge you to stay on the path of non-violent protest,” Pence said in his address at a Washington think tank.

He also slammed China for its treatment of Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.

Pence directed some of his harshest words at sports apparel giant Nike (NKE.N) and the NBA, which he accused of siding with China’s Communist Party over freedom of speech in Hong Kong.

The vice president, who is often the face of the Trump administration’s tougher policies on China, said the NBA and Nike had failed to defend basketball team Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey, after he tweeted support of Hong Kong protesters earlier this month.

“Some of the NBA’s biggest players and owners, who routinely exercise their freedom to criticize this country, lose their voices when it comes to the freedom and rights of other peoples,” he said.

By “siding with the Chinese Communist Party and silencing free speech, the NBA is acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of the authoritarian regime,” Pence said.

Nike stores in China removed Rockets merchandise after Beijing criticized Morey, Pence noted.

“Nike promotes itself as a so-called social-justice champion, but when it comes to Hong Kong, it prefers checking its social conscience at the door,” he said.

Pence said “far too many American multinational corporations have kowtowed to the lure of China’s money and markets by muzzling not only criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, but even affirmative expressions of American values.”

Nike, the NBA and the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the remarks.

Influential Chinese state-backed newspaper the Global Times, however, said in an editorial that while Pence reiterated many of his previous criticisms, there was still “room for optimism.”

“He emphasized the U.S. does not want to ‘decouple’ and repeated how U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to start a new future with China,” it said.

TRADE TALKS

The closely watched speech set a discordant tone just weeks before a summit in Chile where U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to finalize a partial trade deal with China’s Xi Jinping.

The S&P 500 U.S. stock index briefly moved lower after his comments.

Analysts said Pence’s speech appeared aimed at keeping the way open for a trade deal while seeking to convince Trump’s support base that he was tough on China going into the 2020 election.

Douglas Paal, a China expert with Washington’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, called it “a superficial and political speech, not a guiding strategic document.”

Scott Kennedy, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, saw it as an bid to provide rationale for “policy moves on security, economics and politics which originally were much less coordinated and less integrated.”

A new round of talks between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese officials to try to end the bruising trade dispute is set for Friday.

The United States launched a trade war with China 15 months ago, alleging unfair trading practices such as theft of U.S. intellectual property and generous industrial subsidies at the expense of foreign competitors.

Fears of antagonizing Beijing had prompted the White House to postpone Pence’s speech, which was originally scheduled for June, ahead of a meeting Trump and Xi aimed at getting trade talks back on track.

  Many China watchers had expected Pence to tread lightly on sensitive topics on Thursday, in sharp contrast to the bombastic tone of his first major China policy address a year ago. But some saw signs of a rapprochement as well.

“In contrast to the Hudson Institute speech of October 2018, the Vice President’s equally hard-hitting Wilson speech offered the beginnings of a positive vision for U.S.-China relations,” said Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on China.

Pence said the United States was “not seeking to contain China’s development.” “We want a constructive relationship with China’s leaders,” he said, calling on Beijing to “seize this unique moment in history to start anew by ending the trade practices that have taken advantage of the American people for far too long.”

Reporting by Alexandra Alper, David Lawder and David Brunnstrom in Washington and Daniel Trotta and Melissa Fares in New York; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Editing by Alistair Bell and Himani Sarkar

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