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He finally coaching dark skin brothers. :lmao
NVM. lol Maybe give ferry some browny points for coaching an african team. :lmao
Boris diaw??? Wtf
Boris representing the Spurs too!:toast
I've never heard of this type of game before.
Will they play with a coconut or ball?
Team World gets Paul and the Gasol Bros, and Team Africa gets...Aminu, Biyombo, and Mbah A Moute?
I know they are trying to keep things geographically appropriate, but...seems a little lopsided to me.
Pop trying to make it fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dex
LMFAO. Oh Hater, that little kid in the green t-shirt, you don't want to see him after puberty. Just sayin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by hater
I guess Pop is not yet burned out on coaching and basketball
Wtf, Diaw is African now?
"his father, Issa Diaw, is a former Senegalese high jump champion."Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Diaw
:lol starting to give me Night terrors. Might have to take it down :wowQuote:
Originally Posted by Embedded
Wow. Definitely do not associate Diaw with "high jump."Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Maybe not any more, but I read an article that back when he was on the Suns, he had the highest vertical on the team. Just because he's chubby and getting a little older, don't think Boris isn't an athlete. That's one of the reasons the KA comparisons don't make sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by cd98
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxNB2TcIEAAyK43.png:largeQuote:
Originally Posted by cd98
:lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by jyra
Yep, that was the exact article I read. Nice post. :toastQuote:
Originally Posted by jyra
Bud will be assistant coach for Pop. :downspin:
I'm not a huge fan of the NBA lumping together the various, diverse countries and ethnic groups that make up the entire continent of Africa into merely "Africa." This homogenization only reinforces the Western world's black and white perception of African reality, and effectively reduces it into a single, solitary unit.
Pop getting his foot in the new African talent door . . .
Pop recruiting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ
i think that pretty much sums it up why he isn't...Quote:
Originally Posted by BillMc
RC has a number of African adoptive children and has been watching Africa for years tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by Russ
Yep, one of his adopted sons played ball at UT - can't remember his name.Quote:
Originally Posted by hater
Edit: Alexis Wangmene
Bobo is such a pimp. :hatQuote:
Originally Posted by jyra
I can just see it -- Akeem Manu Duncan David Popovich (nickname "Tony").Quote:
Originally Posted by hater
They're playing a basketball game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
:lmao..Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
If they are picking players to play for "Team Africa" based on their African lineage then Chris Paul should be on that team since I'm pretty sure he doesn't have Neanderthal DNA unlike the Gasol bros.
for those who are unaware of diaw's vertical:
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“Boris walks into the gym one day wearing flip-flops and holding his customary cappuccino, which was a staple for him every morning,” Griffin recalled. “It was during pre-draft workouts, so he sees the Vertec [machine] and asks what it is.
“We tell him it measures your vertical leap by determining how many of the bars you can touch. He asks what’s the highest anyone has ever gone, and we tell him Amare’ [Stoudemire] cleared the entire rack.
“Boris puts down the cappuccino, takes off his flip-flops and clears the entire rack on the first try. Then he calmly puts his flip-flops back on, picks up his cappuccino and walks away, saying, ‘That was not difficult.'”
:bobo
so lets stop calling people from europe "european" because we are lumping together various, diverse countries and eithnic groups that make up the entire continent of europeQuote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
I agree they should be more specific that this game is for non muslim Africa.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Pop is gonna coach skinny PGs
FINALLY
where is that clip from?Quote:
Originally Posted by hater
that kid looks psychotic. why does he punch himself the chest beforeahand? LOL
tbh, I don't see a PG on that team...Quote:
Originally Posted by lefty
They should bring Steve Nash in there for Africa to assist somehow.
Did this immediately come to mind for anyone else? :lol
http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/CoverAr...ified/8156.jpg
http://www.bcza.ch/wp-content/upload...r-Up-There.jpg
:lol so they go to the whitest country in AfricaQuote:
As part of BWB and NBA Africa Game efforts, NBA Cares, the league’s global social responsibility program, and the NBPA Foundation will host a series of events to leave a lasting legacy in the community.
Can Team Africa's SF pass out of double teams? We need one of those
Did you think Diaw was a French name? Boy you Southerns are dipshits. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26J0uDIGErMQuote:
Originally Posted by dabom
He's got a little African in him tbh...Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
His mother did at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver&Black
Not to mention the opposing team is 'The WORLD'. If that's not lumping folks together, I dunno what is.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurraider21
They really couldn't get Mudiay in on this? At least if he played, you could have a somewhat convincing SL of him, Deng, Giannis, Ibaka and Dieng.
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Originally Posted by Chinook
Poor Zzuultron, excluded again...
:lol Indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
By far, the best Bobo story.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyra
:boboQuote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
Not a bad gig for Pop to evaluate players from Africa. Will RC be
skulking around also?
Oh snap, the Jimmy Dolan shake and bake. Yep, I can see that exact scenario with Pop and Serge.Quote:
Originally Posted by BatManu20
Yeah that's pretty ridiculous. They couldn't get a Team Americas, Team Europe or Team Asia together?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
Little known fact...Pop can also cuss you out in several African languages. Serge ain't ready tbqh.
Meaningless exhibition game.
Yeah, I don't give a fuck about French, African, the Diaws, their names, or where they originated from. Of course all blacks are African somewhere down the line, but I honestly thought this dude was just a French guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Body
will anyone born in Africa be on the team?
He speaks French. Thats a decent connection to Africa at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Many French athletes have North and West African roots.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Like Yannick Noah (Joakim's father), Diaw, Thierry Henry, etc.
Learn something everyday.
haha ibaka plays for spain, but in this game he will play for africa..
Apples to oranges. Europe is a far smaller, more homogeneous continent.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurraider21
A better comparison would be Asia. The people of East Asia, for instance, have vastly different cultures, traditions, and peoples from those of South Asia. Countries from the former region do not identify with the people from the latter region at all. As such, if the NBA were to hold an NBA Asia game, and lump all the players of various Asian origins into one Team Asia, it would be an awkward fit at best.
Exciting stuff -- thanks for the post
He already knows every possible outcome to every reaction you could possibly have. Sounds about right. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by .G.
yes, tell the balkans, the slavs, the scandinavians, and the algo-saxons that they're homogeneousQuote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
I said Europe was more homogeneous. I didn't say it was homogeneous.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurraider21
Besides, you're only making my point for me. You can't just lump together all the people in one continent and homogenize them. But that's exactly what this NBA Africa game is doing.
and my point was that its odd to only make that observation for africa but not anything else. unless ur just trying too hard to be PCQuote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Nice event!
Ibaka was born in the congoQuote:
Originally Posted by Biernutz
CIA POP BITCHES
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Originally Posted by AFBlue
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this made me laugh, lol
Boris Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Kidd K
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uhhmmm, the similarity is striking
Boris Diaw might be, might be....silently, the best all-around player on the Earth!
more versatile by far than the crybaby Lebron the fallen King james
Wow. That is so Bobo as Manu would have said it. Thanks for the story :toastQuote:
Originally Posted by jyra
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Originally Posted by jyra
That was before Boris started having chocolate croissants with his morning cappuccino. He used to be a PG, too. He's not going to clear the Vertec today. But I'll take him on the team any time.
:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mugen
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...yOk_bigger.jpg Zach HarperVerified account @talkhoops
I <3 Pop https://instagram.com/p/5w7Dg4HJXC/
what time is the game? will it be televised?
So Africa is going to be stuffed to the gill with Post Pau faggots as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dex
I read his lips. He said "5 time champions, we won that last one twice"Quote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
^ Boris looking fat, tbh..Glad Pop got the opportunity to eyeball him from close this summer.. no amount of cool instgram missives :bobo will save u Bobo this time around :lol
Coach Bud and Monty are Pop's assistant coaches :tuQuote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
Btw who's going to play PG for Team Africa? Boris and Giannis?
You can't even see Bobo in that pic. :rolleyesQuote:
Originally Posted by spursistan
Fucking player fans....
:rolleyesQuote:
Originally Posted by Dex
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Originally Posted by ace3g
Fair enough, I stand corrected. I was looking at the first pic.Quote:
Originally Posted by spursistan
Still think Bobo pretty much looks how Bobo always looks.
Suprise Pop didn't invite Bonner to the team, even though it's an Africa team...
8AM central on ESPN.Quote:
Originally Posted by gambit1990
I wonder if Pop kicked out everybody wearing a 2013 NBA Champion Spurs t-shirts...