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For all the wrong reasons! No wonder you know so much about Brazil!
Not this again. How much better do you think Splitter would be if they had been developing him instead of Bonner/Blair?
I hope Splitter doesn't suffer a relapse of CD, whatever that is. It was pretty chronic for a while, as it was listed on the box scores for all the games he missed.
Obviously much better, if he wasn't hurt he could have got over himself and developed.
Spot on. Splitter B-ball IQ far exceeds the turd towers.
After his showing in the playoffs last year, he was in need of some type of a breakout year or something.
Yeah, Tiago Splitter Beims doesn't sound very jewish. And Blumenau, Tiago's hometown was the perfect place for a jew settle down in the first half of the 20th century. I suppose...
Last edited by PingPong; 01-24-2013 at 11:58 PM.
Wow, Splitter's family is historically Jewish. I didn't know that.
Six of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
It turns out that Splitter (22, 2.12 m) has Jewish roots which go back five generations. Six members of his family died in Auschwitz death camps. His father, Cassio Splitter, has been trying to trace back the family tree for the past 28 years, and asked his son to use the visit to the holy land to gather as much information as possible.
Tiago Splitter (Photo: AP)
“I grew up like a regular Christian boy, but my father always told me about our Jewish background,” Tiago tells ynet. “This is my first visit to Israel, and I am very excited. It’s a very special place to me. Unfortunately, I will not be able to visit Jerusalem and the holy places because of the preparations for the game, but I hope to have another chance to visit in the future.”
One family's journey
The family journey began in about 1870, when Johann Splitter, Cassio’s great-grandfather, left Germany to settle in Brazil with his wife, Anna Saul. “To this day I cannot figure out the exact reason they fled Germany,” says the senior Splitter. “Other relatives stayed in Europe, and I know some of them were in a Polish town in the Krakow area.”
In his search for his family history, Cassio visited Hamburg and Bremen. He met Regina Splitter, a relative, at the historical archives in Rio de Janeiro. The two traveled to Poland together, where they discovered that their ancestors were killed in the Holocaust. “There are no more members of the Splitter family left in Poland today,” he says.
Cassio visited his son in Vitoria last week, and joined him and the team for the Royal Cup games in Malaga. He missed the flight to Tel Aviv: “It could have been amazing, but I was too late, unfortunately. Even though I am a church member, I am very connected to Judaism. The full truth lies in Kabbalah, and you cannot question it. I live in Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil, and many of my friends are Jews. I will not give up the search for my family history. I see it as my life’s work.”
Tiago Splitter is considered as one of basketball’s rising stars, and is marked as a potential NBA player. He joined Tau Vitoria at the age of 15, and has played there ever since. He opens games regularly, along Argentinean Luis Scola.
“Everyone needs to know where they come from,” he sums up. “I think that fleeing Europe caused the detachment from Judaism. I respect Judaism and feel close to it. Even though I am Christian, ultimately, we all come from the same place.”
And they choose the second german-ish city in Brazil to settle down. Crazy. Even more if you think there are places in Sao Paulo or Rio crowded of jews. Blumenau is so german that's why I thought it was a joke. But his family emigrated to Brazil some decades before the austrian prick took the power. That explains why they settled down in a "little german" city.
Last edited by PingPong; 01-25-2013 at 12:23 AM.
The same Germans that settled TX settled Brazil -- liberal Germans who were escaping/being "encouraged" to leave pre-Weimar Germany. Plenty of nazis settled in Brazil, but far more progressive Germans settled there.
Another awesome game from Splitter against the Mavs. No reason for basically taking half as many shots as Blair/Diaw though.
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