Miss Conduct’s primer on Facebook etiquette
March 4, 2012 by admin
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A friend of mine vented about the stress of buying her first home on Facebook, and someone else responded to her, saying, “That’s such a First World problem!” I’ve had people say this to me, too, and I totally recognize that most of us in this country have a far better quality of life than much of the world. But is it insensitive/elitist of me that I don’t want to be made to feel guilty about that at a time when I’m already stressed out?
M.F. / Needham
Not at all. Facebook can allow for delightfully serendipitous moments, like when a friend posts a recipe that neatly solves your problem of what to do with the leftover chili. But serendipity is double-edged. Even the most anodyne “I had bacon and eggs for breakfast” update could cause a twinge of hurt or envy for someone who is struggling with a food budget or an eating disorder.
Facebook friends should remember that they are friends, and give one another the benefit of the doubt accordingly. Herewith, Miss Conduct’s General Principles for Social Media in a World in Which Fortune Favors Us All Differently:
(1) Appreciate what you have. Lighthearted complaints are fine, and if you are good at complaining entertainingly, by all means do. But people generally prefer to read positive status updates. And friends who don’t have a spouse/child/job/house/dog/iPhone don’t want to hear you talk about yours as though it is nothing but a burden.
(2) Don’t mention numbers. You can decide whether to talk salary, mortgages, or weight among close friends. But never put numbers on Facebook.
(3) Respond to posts in the spirit intended, or not at all. If a friend is asking for sympathy, don’t tell her there are children starving in Africa. If she is asking for prayers, don’t tell her you’re an atheist. Not every post is intended for every person. (Of course, if someone is constantly posting questions and comments that you find wrongheaded and dumb, you might want to reexamine your friendship.)
Next time you get called a “White Whiner” on Facebook, point out to your friend that both of you are ridiculously privileged by any historical standard. And that you’ll listen to her First World Problems any old day.
A paraprofessional at the high school where I teach behaves very unprofessionally. “Jane” swears in front of students, has showed a pornographic photo on her phone to other educators (not even trying to shield it from the students around her), and texts and reads magazines during class. We don’t feel comfortable talking to her, because we aren’t her boss. But if we were to talk to her boss, maybe Jane would be fired, and we don’t want to be responsible for that. Jane is in her early 30s. We feel she should know how to behave at this point, but she needs some help.
B.R. / Wakefield
I’m certainly not going to put on my heels and come over there, so if Jane is going to get any help, it had better come from you. Jane’s poor work habits are affecting the students, which means that someone needs to step in.
Your reason for not speaking to Jane’s boss is odd. First of all, hasn’t he or she noticed Jane’s behavior? It sounds as if everyone else has, which makes me wonder about the boss’s competence. Second, you say Jane might be fired – but wouldn’t the first move, after hearing a bad report on an employee, be to investigate? Speaking to Jane directly would also be acceptable, because you aren’t telling her how to do her job, but setting her straight about institutional norms that no one clued her in on. I agree that she should have figured it out herself, but she obviously didn’t, so there it is.
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Naveens Facebook accounts hoaxes
March 4, 2012 by admin
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BHUBANESWAR: His party colleagues and even babus may have been Facebook (FB) freaks, but the bug has not bitten Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik yet. On Saturday, his office declared that Naveen does not have an FB account. “Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is not a member of the Facebook. Neither has he an account in official capacity nor personally,” the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated in a press release.
What prompted the CMO to issue clarification was that a number of Facebook accounts pertaining to Naveen are in circulation on the social networking site.
A search of Naveen Patnaik on Facebook throws up at least three pages which have been receiving comments and reactions from different members. All of them are hoaxes.
One community page on Naveen, which describes him as Chief Minister of Odisha and BJD supremo, is liked by as many as 537 members. There are almost daily updates on the page. Even as Naveen makes noises about the NCTC, the February 29 update on the page read like this : “Hit “LIKE” if you want Naveen Jee as national leader ……….!”
A day before the update was a post (in atrocious English): “People must think about what oppositions behaving in house during budget sessions and don’t forget its just not wastage of time but also wastage of peoples money.” Another page, which describes Naveen as public figure and has over 2,000 likes, continues to receive comments. While some comments are positive, some are critical of Naveen.
Needless to say, the CMO made it amply clear that members of FB must not mistake that Naveen has any account on the site and advised people not to be misled by the comments and reactions.
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Tajikistan blocks access to Facebook, news sites
March 4, 2012 by admin
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Dushanbe: Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president on Saturday, representatives of two Internet providers said.
The shutdown was ordered by the state-run communications service, the local Internet providers told Reuters, requesting anonymity. Users who tried to access Facebook or the two websites, which published a story critical of President Imomali Rakhmon, were automatically re-directed to the home page of their provider.
Tighter Internet controls echo measures taken by other ex-Soviet, Central Asian republics, where authoritarian rulers are wary of the role social media played in revolutions in the Arab world and mass protests in Russia.
Government opponents in Tunisia and Egypt used Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to run rings around censors and organize protests that eventually toppled their leaders.
“This morning, we carried out the instruction of the communications service and blocked the sites facebook.com, tjknews.com and zvezda.ru,” said one of the providers. “We could not refuse to carry out this instruction.”
The communications service was not available for comment. Government officials directed all questions about the shutdown to the service.
Rakhmon has ruled Tajikistan, a mountainous country of 7.5 million people bordering Afghanistan and China, for two decades. Though media operate with less restrictions than in neighboring Uzbekistan, journalists have been detained in recent months.
Authorities have also launched a crackdown on religious groups and imprisoned more than 150 people in the last two years on charges of extremism and attempting to subvert the constitution.
Facebook’s popularity has soared in Tajikistan. Membership of the social networking website doubled there last year to 26,000 people. Several Facebook groups openly discuss politics and some users have been critical of the authorities.
Russia-based zvezda.ru had published an article on Friday entitled: ‘Tajikistan on the eve of a revolution’. Local news site tjknews.com republished the article.
Access to microblogging site Twitter appeared unaffected.
Tajikistan is the most impoverished of 15 former Soviet republics. Its economy relies heavily on exports of aluminum and cotton, as well as remittances from around 1 million migrant laborers, most of them young men living in Russia.
Rakhmon must stand again for election by November 2013. Victory would secure seven more years as president of the mainly Muslim country.
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On-message with social media?
March 4, 2012 by admin
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Cincinnati (CNN) — Mitt Romney had a mutiny on his hands. Not with his staff but with his embeds.
The hardworking, 20- and 30-something off-camera network news reporters who chronicle Romney’s every public utterance had decided on a plan: They would band together and confront the candidate working the rope line, mini-cams in hand, with the hopes of forcing Romney to comment on the Rush Limbaugh controversy.
Limbaugh had called a woman who testified on the importance of birth control coverage a “slut.”
Not surprisingly, outside of Seattle on Friday, Romney declined to answer a question from CNN about Limbaugh’s insult.
Romney rarely answers questions from the embeds and reporters who try to catch him on the rope line. He can hear them but simply ignores them.
The Romney embeds are quite used to this. Since the former Massachusetts governor jumped into the GOP race, he has kept his traveling press corps at arm’s length.
Even though their news organizations pay roughly $1,000 an hour to have these reporters fly aboard Romney’s press charter for the sole purpose of round-the-clock coverage of the candidate, the embeds have limited access to him.
In the last month, he has held just one “media avail,” jargon for a brief news conference. Romney prefers his Fox News Channel comfort zone, appearing on the conservative-leaning cable news channel sometimes several times a week.
But the Romney campaign’s attempt to control the message fell victim to its own disciplined approach.
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After Romney zipped past CNN’s camera without making a comment, the candidate and his staff hopped aboard their campaign plan for a five-hour flight to Ohio.
While he was in the air, his adversaries were having a field day with his silence on the Limbaugh comments.
A tweet from this reporter about Romney’s nonresponse was re-tweeted by other media outlets and within seconds it had entered the social media bloodstream.
Before long, the news (or lack thereof) was picked up by the left-leaning Web sites Huffington Post and Think Progress, which spread the information to their hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter.
By the end of the day, the President Barack Obama’s top political adviser, David Axelrod, had tweeted: “Rush’s vile, appalling assault on Sandra Fluke deserves universal condemnation. How can folks who calls themselves leaders walk away?”
It was a clear shot at Romney, who was just landing in Ohio.
Flash forward to moments after Romney had finished his speech in Cleveland Friday evening. The embeds pounced. And Romney finally broke his silence.
“I’ll just say this, which is it’s not the language I would have used,” Romney said before moving down the rope line.
Had Romney said the same thing six hours earlier, or perhaps something a bit more condemnatory, the GOP contender would have averted a news cycle marked by his silence.
All of this is just dawning on the campaigns in this new maelstrom. This is the first presidential campaign to feel the full effects of Twitter. Back in the 2008 campaign, the site was in its political infancy, used to shoot out press releases and shoot down negative stories more than anything else.
The last campaign was more about YouTube — the Obama Girl and so on.
How things have changed.
Witness Andrew Kaczynski at the website Buzz Feed. Kaczynski has quickly earned a large social media following by tirelessly unearthing long-forgotten and mostly embarrassing videos lurking in the bowels of C-SPAN’s website and YouTube and tweeting them out.
Reporters who follow Kaczynski then re-tweet his handiwork and the earworm is born. If the video is good enough — such as the one from 2002 featuring then-Governor Romney describing himself on C-SPAN as having “progressive views” — count on the clip to surface on cable news.
Former Jon Huntsman press secretary Tim Miller kept a sharp eye on his own Twitter account while his candidate was in the race to stay on top of the onslaught of information. To stay on guard, he simply followed all of the people tweeting about Huntsman.
“With the expansion of news outlets covering the day-to-day minutiae of the campaign and Twitter creating a never-ending news cycle, this campaign has made rapid response and message discipline more important than ever,” Miller told CNN.
Naturally, the candidates handle this volatile environment in different ways. Whereas Romney does his best to tune out the noise, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich seem to plunge right into it.
Santorum could not be more different than Romney in his dealings with the media. The former Pennsylvania senator holds “avails” nearly every day. After debates, he barrels straight into the media spin rooms to take questions.
Unlike Romney, GOP spin-doctors say, Santorum needs the free media.
“Romney’s advantages with organization and funding mean that he is not as dependent on earned media as is Santorum,” former Republican National Committee spokesman Doug Heye said.
“Santorum does more interviews, not necessarily because he wants to, but that he has to,” Heye said.
This approach also has its drawbacks.
In the days before the Michigan primary, Santorum was within striking distance of dealing Romney what could have been a death blow in his home state.
Then Santorum, who should know better given his long history of dealing with a certain Google problem, blew up on Twitter.
He accused the president of being a “snob” for wanting young people to go to college. He said he wanted to “throw up” over President John F. Kennedy’s call for a separation of church and state.
The comments were predictably reduced into 140-character tweet-bombs that detonated under the Michigan hopes of his insurgent campaign. Santorum would later chastise the free media for not covering the real issues voters care about.
Message clarity, something Santorum lacked in those days before Michigan, may be one way to manage the chaos.
“You need a clear message across all mediums and be able to quickly dispense with any threats to that message,” Huntsman’s Miller said.
For the most part, this is what works for Romney — his embeds spend much of their time tweeting out the more benign details of his campaign stops — the stagecrafting, the music, the campaign’s message of the day.
This is all appreciated by the campaign, whose staffers have privately told reporters they monitor tweets with great interest.
But message discipline has its limits. Having had quite enough of Romney’s silence, the embeds banded together in the quest for some kind of social media justice on Friday.
After getting their quote from Romney, one of the embeds tweeted out a note of congratulations to her colleagues. That tweet was followed by a fair number of retweets.
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Twitter helps Celts generate their own buzz
March 4, 2012 by admin
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Demand for tickets to the debut of Linsanity at the TD Garden today is as high as an Eastern Conference Finals game, according to Celtics [team stats] officials.
That boost, fueled partly by New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin’s popularity on social media, serves as a one-game microcosm of the Celtics’ overall social media strategy, which focuses on pushing content to help sell tickets.
Among the torrent of tweets from the press, fans and players, the Celtics’ official Twitter account sent out 18 tweets before, during and after Wednesday night’s win against the Milwaukee Bucks — delivering news, statistics, promotions and connecting the team to the Garden crowd, TV audience and others not even watching at all.
The man typing those tweets into his iPhone, Celtics director of interactive media Peter Stringer, also helps run the team’s coverage of itself via its website, which during games hosts a chat, play-by-play and live stats. That feature, called GameTime Live, adds about 20,000 fans to the 18,000 or so in the Garden.
If that seems redundant or unnecessary, given the wall-to-wall coverage pro sports receives, team officials would disagree. All that activity helps drive the team’s main business — selling tickets and sponsorships, Stringer said.
“(Fans) get the news directly from the source, something that wasn’t really possible a few years ago,” Stringer told the Herald. “Now we’re a media outlet, much the way the Herald or the Globe or anybody is at this point.”
Before Wednesday’s game, Stringer tweeted a photo of a framed section of the old Boston Garden Parquet with the text, “Wanna sit downstairs, balcony fans? Come find Mackenzie near this piece of history. First fan to say -#iamaceltic wins.”
Ten minutes later, Liam McGinnis, 23, and his sister, Brenna, of Plymouth, arrived from their balcony seats and ended up watching the game from owner Wyc Grousbeck’s front-row seats. In the fourth quarter, Celtic forward Brandon Bass crashed into their laps.
“This is the closest I’ve ever been at a Celtics game,” Liam said. “I never thought I’d be this close to the court, so it’s awesome.”
The Celtics want in on any network where the team is discussed — the team recently set up shop on social network du jour Pinterest — but Twitter has been the platform of choice. The team thinks it’s the first to put its Twitter handle, @celtics, on its court.
“Obviously a couple of years ago we didn’t really have any way to do that, aside from just picking people out of the crowd,” Stringer said. “But now we can do it as more of a contest, the fans get really excited.”
The feeling may be mutual. In August, Stringer confirmed, via a Twitter exchange with Twitter founder, Wellesley native and Celtics fan Biz Stone, that Twitter’s mascot, “Larry the Bird,” was named after Celtics legend Larry Bird.
“I don’t even think Larry knows what Twitter is,” Stringer said. “He’d say he doesn’t know. He probably knows, but I don’t see Larry on Twitter.”
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Now Facebook squares up for Google fight
March 4, 2012 by admin
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Founder Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to float Facebook in a move that could value the group at $100bn, but that would still make it only half the size of Google. The two are fierce rivals, particularly since the launch of social network Google+ last year.
Facebook has been revamping its advertising to try to commercialise the business. Around 85 per cent of its $3.71bn revenue now comes from online advertising, though this is expected to soar as the social network site looks at new ways for big brands to reach its 845 million users.
The company has announced a push into allowing advertising on its mobile phone app, which is currently ad-free. About half of the site’s followers access it on the move.
Deep in Facebook’s Californian base, product engineers are working on a system that would help advertisers to deploy the data gathered on users more widely. In simple terms, if someone has their Facebook page open in one browser and surfs the web in another, data could be taken from the social media site and an advert tailored according to their preference would appear in the search engine.
A source close to the company said: “This is something talked about internally and a 2013 launch has been mentioned. If Facebook knows you’re a Manchester United fan and the search engine or publisher also knows your identity, then you will get adverts for Man U products.”
Before introducing the technology, Facebook would have to sign deals with search engines and online publishers and split the revenues.
Google uses similar data to tailor its advertisements, based on what people have searched for, rather than their preferences and interests – the sort of information that Facebook possesses.
Facebook would have to placate critics that say the site and other similar online giants could breach their privacy. But, if Facebook can calm these nerves, experts believe the move could double the size of the business overnight.
Simon Mansell, the founder of a UK-based Facebook ad builder, said: “This would be a game changer for Facebook and would let them take on Google, at least in terms of revenue.”
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Chavez Twitter messages say he will survive cancer
March 4, 2012 by admin
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CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assured supporters in a flurry of Twitter messages from Cuba Saturday that he was recovering well from surgery to remove a potentially cancerous lesion.
He underwent surgery on the same area of his pelvis where a cancerous tumor was removed last June.
His social network messages Saturday to government officials and others in the states of Apure, Tachira and Miranda assured them he would recovery quickly.
“Greetings my dear Vice President Elias,” Chavez wrote to Vice President Elias Jaua, who was visiting flower growers. After commenting on Venezuela’s “beautiful flowers,” Chavez ended by writing, “We will live and overcome.”
He sent a message through his Twitter account @chavezcandanga to Venezuela’s “children’s brigades” that said, “Keep making that wonderful example of the socialist homeland.”
Chavez’s health has become a significant issue in Venezuelan politics as he runs for a third term of office.
So far, Chavez has refused to withdraw from the election scheduled for October 7 or to delegate power to his vice president during his recovery.
He has not said whether the lesion removed on Monday is malignant, but did say before the operation that the risk of malignancy was high.
Chavez is running for re-election against Henrique Capriles Radonski, a moderate former governor chosen in heavily attended primaries to represent the opposition.
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Rush Limbaugh Boycott: Reddit, Twitter, Facebook Users Take Part (UPDATE)
March 4, 2012 by admin
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UPDATE 1: Limbaugh issued an apology on Saturday. He said, in part, “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.” Click here to read his full statement.
UPDATE 2: Limbaugh sponsor Carbonite has decided to pull its ads from The Rush Limbaugh Show, despite Limbaugh’s earlier apology. Carbonite CEO David Friend wrote the following on the official Carbonite blog: “Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show.”
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PREVIOUSLY: The Internet has taken aim at Rush Limbaugh.
The inflammatory conservative political commentator and host of talk radio program The Rush Limbaugh Show set off a firestorm on Wednesday with his outrageous comments about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who was barred from testifying last week before an all-male panel during a House of Representatives hearing on religious freedom and the Obama administration’s contraception policy. Limbaugh on Wednesday called Fluke a “slut” and on Thursday said, “If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we [...] want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
On Friday morning, HuffPost blogger Krystal Ball called for a boycott of companies that sponsor the Limbaugh show. Participating Twitter users are rallying around the hashtag #BoycottRush, and two Facebook pages calling for a boycott had garnered more than 18,000 and 6,000 Likes by Saturday morning.
Reddit user jaybercrow posted on r/politics a list of companies that sponsor the Limbaugh show and encouraged Redditors to contact the businesses to ask that they sever Limbaugh partnerships on Friday. “TO BE CLEAR,” reads a caveat at the very top of the post, “this is about taking Rush Limbaugh down through a boycott of his sponsors and in no way is meant to infer physical harm.”
During the day on Friday, Limbaugh sponsors began responding to the outcry over his statements. Jaybercrow updated the Reddit list several times on Friday as sponsors pulled their deals with Limbaugh. By Saturday morning, Legal Zoom, Citrix Success, Heart and Body Extract, AutoZone, Quicken Loans, Sleep Train, Sleep Number and Oreck said they yanked ads from Limbaugh’s show.
Nine companies remain on the list: ProFlowers, CARBONITE, Inc., Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee, American Forces Network, Mission Pharmacal Company, Life Quotes, Inc., Life Lock, Tax Resolution and AOL, parent company of The Huffington Post.
(Accompanying AOL on the list is a link to a landing page for AOL TechGuru, a remote access computer diagnostics service for Windows-powered PCs. The page currently displays a large photo of Limbaugh and advertises a special offer “exclusively for Rush Limbaugh listeners”: $4.99 for a onetime computer diagnosis, a 75% discount on the service’s $19.99 monthly fee.)
Website Left Action has also set up a Boycott Rush page that lists sponsors of the show. A petition attached to the page attracted close to 50,000 signatures in less than 24 hours, according to a statement on the page. The list of Limbaugh sponsors on that page, which differs slightly from Reddit’s list, has also been greatly reduced since the boycott began. At the time of writing, TaxResolution, Sears, ProFlowers, LifeLock and Carbonite remain on the list. (The site lists Lending Tree among the sponsors of the Limbaugh program, despite the company’s statements on Twitter that it is not affiliated with the show.)
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Miam Heat’s LeBron James offers glimpse of humanity on Twitter
March 4, 2012 by admin
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LOS ANGELES —
So heartbroken was LeBron James after Friday’s dramatic loss to the Jazz that the Heat’s rugged forward put to words his dejection in the immediate hours after the game.
“Man I have a sick feeling in my stomach right now! Really wanted tonight’s game. I just had to make one more dang play out there,” James wrote on Twitter as the team departed Salt Lake City, and all of its fresh and searing memories, for Los Angeles and Sunday’s much-hyped game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
If nothing else, James’ reflexive mood after the 99-98 defeat to the Jazz offered a refreshing glimpse of humanity, something often lost amid his polished public persona of sponsorship responsibilities and image-conscious marketing strategies.
Of course, James’ critics and detractors will spin it differently.
In reality, there was not much more James could have done against the Jazz, save for making the game-winning shot. He scored 35 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, to go along with 10 rebounds, six assists and three blocks. In a remarkable fury of basketball genius, James knocked down 11 of his final 12 shots to put the Heat in position to win a game it didn’t seem to care much for winning from the opening tipoff.
After all, the Jazz out-rebounded the Heat 50-23, including 27-8 on the offensive glass.
Still, James brooded.
“A stop, rebound, a shot, assist, a block, whatever it took. I fell short again!” James wrote on Twitter, where his thoughts are followed by more than 3.75 million people.
If it was the spoken hope of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra to move past the circumstances of the Heat’s first loss in more than three weeks — and, after the game, Spoelstra certainly tried his best in that regard — then James’ sorrowful tone on Twitter only added to what has become the NBA’s most campy of soap operas: Is James scared to take a game-winning shot?
Just as he did in the final seconds against Utah, James passed instead of shot in the waning moments of last Sunday’s All-Star Game. Add those decisions to James’ fourth-quarter efforts in last season’s NBA Finals and you have the meat of a narrative that will dominate the media coverage of Sunday’s nationally televised game against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, and then resurface every time the Heat finds itself in a close game.
“We don’t want it to become a story line and we won’t let it,” Spoelstra said Friday night.
Unfortunately for Spoelstra, such things are out of his control.
“There will be opinions out there,” Spoelstra said. “None of those opinions will matter in our locker room.
“I’m sure there will be a lot of speculation.”
After Friday’s game, Jazz forward Josh Howard certainly did his best to throw gasoline on the bonfire.
“I guess [James] felt there was too much pressure on him,” Howard said.
That ever-present undercurrent, plus the recent history between Bryant and Dwyane Wade, should provide more than enough side-show fodder for the TV producers of Sunday’s game at Staples Center. Before Friday, the backdrop for the Heat’s second and final game against the Lakers this season, of course, was the fractured nose of Bryant.
Wade broke Bryant’s nose during the All-Star Game, and the foul was deemed overly aggressive and unnecessary by Bryant’s teammates in the days after the incident. For his part, Wade offered an apology.
Bryant is averaging 34.5 points since the All-Star break and Wade expects Bryant’s injury to provide extra motivation Sunday.
“It makes him focus in a little more,” Wade said. “And he enjoys adding a something little extra to his résumé.”
Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/03/2674089/miam-heats-lebron-james-offers.html
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