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Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity LaVar Ball ? Notorious basketball father LaVar Ball  is attempting to grow  his  personal profile by creating a new basketball league for high school seniors who have decided not to bother going to college  reports say.
 Ball  claims the new league  to be called the Junior Basketball Association (JBA)  will pay the lowest-ranked players $3 000 a month while the stars would get $10 00 a month  according to Sporting News.
Logo of  LaVar Ball âs league aimed at top high school players is a silhouette of Lonzo ready to dunk. pic.twitter.com/hBf9WHBdJG â Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 20  2017
âGetting these players is going to be easy â  Ball  said. âThis is giving guys a chance to get a jump start on their career  to be seen by pro scouts  and weâre going to pay them because someone has to pay these kids.â
 Ball  also said the league will use NBA regulations but that all players will wear his Big Baller brand shoes and gear because his company is funding the league.
âWeâll give it to them all. Theyâll be wearing our uniform  our shoes  our T-shirts and our hoodies â  Ball  insisted.
 Ball  said  he  wants to assemble ten teams in cities such as Los Angeles  Dallas  Brooklyn  and Atlanta.
 Ball  recently made news with a feud with President Donald Trump over the assistance the president lent his son  LiAngelo  who was arrested for shoplifting by Chinese authorities when his college team was in that country in November. President Trump personally intervened with Chinaâs leadership to get LiAngelo and two other players released after the arrest  but the senior  Ball  refused to give Trump any credit for helping his son out of the jam.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity DAVID GREENE ? DAVID GREENE  HOST:
 GREENE : Oh  interesting. So it really is different lenses.
 GREENE : So is public opinion turning in some significant way  if there a way to measure this broadly? I mean  I remember the mass shooting of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School - a lot of people thought  this is going to change the game  result in stricter gun measures  bring a lot of the country together. We didn't see a lot of new  stricter gun measures.
 GREENE : So are things changing?
 GREENE : So these fundamental divisions are - I mean  are helpful in explaining why the debate over gun controls has remained so static.
 GREENE : All right? Talking through a new NPR/Ipsos poll on guns in America with NPR political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben. Danielle  thanks.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ? Hillary Clinton . (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Thereâs not much to do when youâre home for the holidays  so this season some have decided to fill up their free time by melting down over  a video that snipes at Hillary Clinton .
âTake up a hobby in the new year â a young writer holding a glass of champagne says to  Clinton  in the short  which Vanity Fair magazineâs âHiveâ vertical produced as part of a series proposing âresolutionsâ to various political figures. âVolunteer work  knitting  improv comedy â literally anything that will keep you from running again.â
Well  no.  The video  had sexist overtones  and the lameness of the jokes made them all the more offensive.  It âs harder to plead comedic license when your comedy isnât funny. But  Clinton  occupies an odd place in the political sphere:  She  was so close to the Oval Office for so long leading up to 2016 that  her  heir apparentness discouraged potential challengers. A career candidate from a Democratic dynasty held little appeal for anyone dissatisfied with the party status quo then  and will hold even less in 2020. Itâs not surprising that some cringe to think  Clinton âs shadow could still loom over races to come.
So then why resurrect  her ?
Although ride-or-die  Clinton  supporters werenât they only ones who took umbrage at the knitting comment  it was that cohort who turned particularly hysterical. These all-in  Clinton  fans seem determined to keep their candidate relevant: Even if they arenât calling on  her  to run again  they want  her  at the center of the political conversation. Every faux pas of President Trumpâs becomes an opportunity for Clinton-would-have-been-bettering. No kidding  she  would  yet thatâs neither here nor there when it comes to countering the damage Trump does every day  or to cultivating a roster of candidates who will win the seats to turn things around.
[Vanity Fair staffers provide snotty  condescending life tips for  Hillary Clinton ]
But more perplexing than the multitude of Clinton crusaders who are still crusading are the  Clinton  critics who continue to place the defeated candidate center-stage in their narratives even as they shriek that they want  her  out. This  besides its blatant unfunniness  may be the greatest failing of Vanity Fairâs ill-advised advice video. The staffers have devoted one minute and three seconds to telling  Clinton  to go away  and all theyâve succeeding in doing is bringing  her  right back.
This is âWhat Happened?â week on repeat. Journalists lambasted  Clinton  for re-litigating the 2016 primary in writing  and then they did the exact same thing. Over and over. They rolled their eyes at  her  play for attention  cash  catharsis or whatever else it was â and then they helped  her  find all of the above.
And itâs not only professional pundits who canât seem to give  Clinton  up. For every amateur commentator or plain old civilian re-upping a  Clinton  campaign talking point on Twitter  thereâs someone ready to fire back with an explanation of why  Clinton  is the worst politician of all time. This goes on  every day  more than a year after the election and almost a year after the man who beat  Clinton  walked into the White House.
Hours before the Vanity Fair outrage  Trump sent a Boxing Day Twitter missive from Mar-a-Lago in his usual style: âThey used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!â he concluded  harping on his beef with  Clinton  yet again. Which prompted all his critics  left  very left and right alike  to tell him to get over it. Perhaps they should  too.

Answer:
Neutral