LeBron James (right) of the Cleveland Cavaliers drives against P.J. Tucker of the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. Photo: CFP
The Phoenix Suns spoiled LeBron James' return to NBA action on Tuesday Comprar Nike Air Max TN Blancas , holding off "King" James and the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-100.
James, sidelined for a fortnight with back and knee injuries, scored 33 points in just under 37 minutes on the floor.
He delivered 12 points in the fourth quarter as the Cavaliers erased a 19-point deficit and even took the lead four times in the final eight minutes, but in the end the Suns prevailed.
Markieff Morris scored a career-high 35 points to lead the Suns.
P.J. Tucker had 10 points for Phoenix and made two key plays that led to four straight free throws down the stretch to help them hang on for the win.
The Cavaliers had hoped James' -return would make for a quick reversal of fortunes. They lost seven of the eight games he missed during the longest stretch on the sidelines of his career.
James admitted before the game that he might have taken more time off if his team had been winning, and said it was hard to endure watching the Cavs lose as he was idle.
"It's the most difficult thing I've ever been through," James said. "I hated the fact we were playing some pretty -decent ball when I went out and we've just dropped a lot of games when I was out."
James said the team Comprar Nike Air Max Blancas , which got off to a slow start as it adjusted to the return of the superstar to his first NBA club after four seasons in Miami, just needed to stay focused on the details that had them improving -before his injury absence.
"We've just got to continue to work the habits and things we've built over the season," James said. "We've played some really good basketball, we've played some not good basketball.
"Obviously of late we haven't played really good basketball so hopefully we get back to it."
James made 11 of 18 shots from the field, including three of his eight three-point attempts. He made eight of 13 free throws, pulled down seven rebounds and handed out five assists.
J.R. Smith made his biggest contribution since Cleveland acquired him last week from the New York Knicks Comprar Nike Air Vapormax , draining eight three-pointers in a 29-point effort. But Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving scored just nine points each.
With the defeat, the Cavaliers fell -below 0.500 (19-20) for the first time since November 24. They'll try to turn things around in Los Angeles, where they face the Lakers on Thursday and Clippers on Friday.
Workers make gloves at one of the 11 glove-producing factories run by Meng Hongjian. [Photo China Daily]
It is early winter, and the sound in the air is an incessant whirring of sewing machines.
"At busy times of the year, hundreds of workers are at those machines about eight hours a day," says Meng Hongjian.
This day Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 Hombre , about 100 women are sitting behind rows of sewing machines. Meng, general manager of Jining Yicheng Glove Co Ltd, points out that winter is a slack season for the glove makers.
The factory, in Dazhanglou, Jiaxiang county, Shandong province Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 Mujer , is one of 11 such factories that Meng, who has been making and selling sports gloves for more than 20 years, runs.
The company says it turns out 2.2 million pairs a year, ranking it second among the county's 227 glove-making companies in terms of production.
The county produced gloves worth 3 billion yuan ($494 million) last year, 27.5 percent higher than six years earlier.
The industry in the county focuses on sports gloves, mainly for skiing www.comprarmax2018es.com , hunting and shooting, says Wang Ruifeng, deputy director of the county's organization that represents small and medium-sized enterprises.
Ninety-five percent of the county's sports gloves are exported, going to more than 30 countries and regions, including European countries, Japan and the United States.
Jiaxiang accounts for more than 70 percent of China's sports glove exports Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 España , Wang says. It exported 72 million pairs of sports gloves last year, accounting for 73 percent of the country's exports of sports gloves, the China Knitting Industrial Association says.
About 80 percent of Jiaxiang's glove businesses are conducted in the form of original equipment manufacturing (OEM), and it makes gloves for global heavyweights such as Reusch of Germany, North Face of the US and Reima of Finland.
It all began in 1987 when a joint venture, Sanyuan Industry Co Ltd Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 Baratas , was founded in the county to make gloves for customers in Taiwan. Although that venture eventually folded in the 1990s, it begat thousands of workers and businesspeople in Jiaxiang who eventually knew the business inside out.
Man Changtong, chairman of Jining Glove and Sewing Product Co Ltd, says he owes his success to the joint venture.
"I would not have known how to expand overseas without the experience I gained with Sanyuan," says Man, who worked as a salesman at the joint venture for 10 years. At least 80 percent of the glove bosses in Jiaxiang once worked for Sanyuan Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 , he says.
Man is said to have been the first entrepreneur in the county to have sought out customers by taking part in trade shows overseas.
"The shows brought me more than 80 foreign customers," he says.
Other people in the trade in Jiaxiang followed suit and began to take part in trade shows overseas, too.
To sell their wares, glove company bosses have also climbed on the e-commerce bandwagon. Among them is Li Xianqing, chairman of Jining Tianjiu Industry and Trade Co Ltd, whose company says it has spent 500 Comprar Hombre Nike Air Max 97 Blancas ,000 yuan developing an e-commerce platform since 2005. Online orders account for 80 percent of the company's business, it says.
But many in the industry recognize that it is its abundance of skilled, experienced workers that forms its backbone.
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