On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
According to the NBA's social media policy players are not supposed to tweet during game time, defined as 45 minutes before start of the game and ends after the players have finished talking to the media.
Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings [@YUNGBUCK3] tweeted.
Back to 500. Yess!!! "500" means where doing good. Way to Play Hard Guys.
For which he was fined $7500. Why? because his tweet came 15 minutes after the game ended. The Tweet was not controversial or said anything that compromised his game or the team's. It simply happened during the time that players are not supposed to Tweet.
Jennings was not happy especially that the fine came just before Christmas.
"I'm bout to delete my twitter," another Jennings posting said. "Twitter cost me 7500. Looks like no Gucci and Louie for Xmas."
The NBA is serious about their social media policy and Jennings said it was an honest rookie mistake.
Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings [@YUNGBUCK3] tweeted.
Back to 500. Yess!!! "500" means where doing good. Way to Play Hard Guys.
For which he was fined $7500. Why? because his tweet came 15 minutes after the game ended. The Tweet was not controversial or said anything that compromised his game or the team's. It simply happened during the time that players are not supposed to Tweet.
Jennings was not happy especially that the fine came just before Christmas.
"I'm bout to delete my twitter," another Jennings posting said. "Twitter cost me 7500. Looks like no Gucci and Louie for Xmas."
The NBA is serious about their social media policy and Jennings said it was an honest rookie mistake.
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