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Jim excellent news today very very good news today we have a good martini.

Yeah for everyone who bet we would not get one in the end. good set it up with bad news because we're still talking about the NBA and

they're cow towing to China. We've talked this week about the blowback to the

Houston Rockets Journal manager, Adam Silver trying to have a foot in both camps, fans getting kicked

out of the Philadelphia 1776ers preseason game for their speech and their signs.

Happened again last night in DC when that Chinese team was playing the Wizards.

But the bad thing we're going to set up here is a press conference.

I think this is in Japan actually but a CNN reporter talking

with Houston rocket stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook here's the

question and the non-answer. Hi, Christina McFarland, CNN.

The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its player and its coaches being able

to speak out openly about political and societal affairs.

I just wonder after the events of this week and the events of

of this week and the fallout we've seen

whether you would both feel differently

about speaking out in that way in future.

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