re: China is backing down from NBA protest.

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stylizing NBA as N.B.A. triggers the frick out of me

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I can tell just by the simple arrogance obvious the periods that this story is either from NY Times or Washington Post. No one else is that smug. It's the same reason they write Mr. Smith instead of just Smith in a story when AP news style that virtually every other publication follows does the latter.