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Well those should jinx any hope we have at gaining some continuity.
Los Spurs take the court during éne-bé-a
By William Pack - Express-News
The San Antonio Spurs will change their name to Los Spurs for two home games later this month as part of the NBA's new Hispanic marketing program called éne-bé-a.
The campaign, much of it designed by San Antonio-based Bromley Communications begins today when the Detroit Pistons play the New York Knicks, renamed Nueva York for the initiative.
Fourteen more games are included in the Noche Latina celebrations through the end of the month. Those games feature special telecasts and in-arena festivities with Latin-tinged performances and contests.
Spurs home games March 10 against the Knicks and March 24 against the Los Angeles Lakers are part of the celebration, along with a road game March 16 against the Miami Heat.
Last edited by duncan228; 03-02-2010 at 07:41 PM.
Well those should jinx any hope we have at gaining some continuity.
"Latin-tinged" brown?
Being a person whose native language is Spanish, I cannot express in mere words how disgusting is to read 'éne-bé-a.'
You never, ever, spell out an acronym in Spanish. NBA is NBA es NBA.
Whoever came up with that should be shot.
What is NBA in Tex-Mex dialect?
"Los Spurs" offends my sensibilities as well, and I'm very anti-PC. We had a contest last year of things that could be more insensitive, and there surprisingly aren't that many. But they could dress the players in sombreros and panchos and it would frankly show less ignorance.
They should also change their name to the Spurs G'z during Black history month.
not a big fan of this stuff
No one is
It would make more sense if our jerseys said "The Spurs" the other 99.5% of the time...But they don't.
Do any Spanish / Latino people really get a kick out of this?
"OMG, the NBA knows our culture exists!"
To be honest, IMO, the whole PC thing doesn't really fly that much with latinos.
I don't mind 'Los Spurs' at all, because that's really how a lot of us call them when we refer to them in Spanish.
My actual problem with what I mentioned before was solely linguistic.
The way they wrote that is the way we pronounce it, not the way we write it.
It's like saying, we're gonna have a 'an-be-ay' night in English. It's like you're re ed or something.
Shouldnt it be los es-spurs
If you want to be PC, it should be "Las Espuelas"...
Crap. They never win in the Los Espurs jerseys.
Why add a "Los" which means "The," when their Jerseys just say Spurs not The Spurs, that is what gets my goat, pinches westsiders que no saben hablar espanol y siempre salen con pendejadas. "Lost Spurs " sound better the way they are playing now.
Now this i would enjoy
We refer to them in English as "the Spurs" but you don't see a "the" on the jersey, so it still seems ignorant to me. Doing an "Espuelas" team logo might actually be cool, even though nobody calls them that. That would be a much cooler collector's jersey IMO.
+1
Sounds much better.
They can invite that Hispanic gang member who got beat up in FL for driving too slow, is probably a cheech&chong stoner, man.
I get you. But if I have to translate "San Antonio Spurs" in Spanish, then I have to write "Las Espuelas de San Antonio". Omitting "Las" would be bad form in Spanish.
I absolutely agree that mixing Spanish-English is also a bas ization, even though it's a popular form used by Latinos in the US.
But eventually, this is not to pay homage to Spanish, but mostly to the Latinos.
Espuelas sounds too much like Abuelas to me, though Las Abuelas seems fitting right now (maybe less so after cutting Finley's ass though).
Shouldn't it jus be Espuelas?
The NBA should stop this "ene-be-a", "los" crap it's lame and kinda of racist and ignorant.
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