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‘Hong Kong lives also matter’: Freedom protesters trample and burn LeBron James jerseys

By John Gage
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‘Hong Kong lives also matter’: Freedom protesters trample and burn LeBron James jerseys

A crowd of Hong Kong freedom protesters took to the streets to burn LeBron James jerseys after he said Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey “wasn’t educated” in his support of them.

“People are angry,” James Lo, a NBA fan in Hong Kong, told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Lo was part of a group of around 200 people who chanted profanities about James while they trampled and lit several of his jerseys on fire.

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