Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip

DeFranco show and a quick note before we get started. I missed you guys yesterday. Obviously,

there wasn't a show like I talked about on Thursday, I had surgery over the weekend. Also,

since I've seen a number of people still asking why did you have to have surgery. I've actually

talked about this on my podcast a little bit. I decided to get a vasectomy. I already have two fantastic boys, I love them so much, we do not want a third child. And honestly, if we ever did change our minds, we would likely just adopt.

And also, for those that are maybe thinking about it, it's actually a very easy, painless, basic procedure.

You can actually do it in office, and as far as the reason I was set up like this, I was in no way comfortable with being awake while it happened, so I was like, put my ass to sleep and also yes thanks to you beautiful bastards clowning on me because we have that relationship I am aware that I

look like the live action version of blue toad thank you for pointing that out

transparently I am still a little sore and nauseous but I want to make sure that

I came back as fast as possible especially with the holiday breaks coming up but

with that said buckle up definitely hit that like button and let's just jump

into it the first thing we're gonna talk about today is more news around China, which I will say,

I knew that there was going to be more news around China. But I personally expected the larger focus to be on other Chinese investments in U.S. companies,

or at the very least, foreign-owned companies that largely service Americans. But a lot of the focus ended up being solely on the NBA again thanks to

LeBron James. And right for those unfamiliar with this situation, one, how dare you not watch my shows

last week? But two, to oversimplify and get you up to speed. A couple of weeks ago, you had Rockets

GM, Darrell Mori tweeting a photo saying fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong. Right, a photo

that seemed to express support for pro-democracy protesters that have been marching in the streets since March.

Now, that said, even though Mori ended up deleting that tweet soon after posting it, right, and following this, it was a massive reaction.

You had things like China cutting ties from the Houston Rockets, although that was just kind of one of many things we saw from China.

Two, you had the NBA kind of distancing itself from Mori, but doing it in a certain way with Adam Silver walking a weird line trying to appease both sides.

You also had other players getting in the mix like that of James Harden, who I'm not gonna even cover again.

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