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Christmas Day in the NBA is supposed to be about marquee matchups, cozy jerseys, and the annual reminder that basketball never really takes a holiday. But when the lights came on and the cameras zoomed in,

“The NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games,” Barkley said on Inside the NBA. “We used to have this day to ourselves, but Roger Goodell and them pigs at the NFL always want to hog every day of the week now. Christmas is an NBA day.”