Posted on 04/20/2015 6:10:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Portland Trail Blazers had a laminated card in their locker room at the FedExForum on Sunday that included the phrase "We don't lose to Spanish players."
The Memphis Grizzlies, the Trail Blazers' opponent in their Western Conference first-round series, feature one of the NBA's most prominent Spanish players, All-Star center Marc Gasol.
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Well, obviously, they do.
I’m supposed to be outraged I guess.
There are spanish basketball players?
Son of a gun! Athletes and their managers talking smack, who da thunk it. I wonder where the outrage was when all the Hispanic guys on construction sites talked crap about Anglos when I was working? Oh that’s right we weren’t a bunch of crying little wankers.
Since Gasol is from Barcelona, being called Spanish must have really cut deep. Whatever anyone does, do not call Spaniards, Basques, Catalans,as Hispanics. Take a look at Xavi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, or David DeGea, do they look anything like David Ortiz or Fernando Valenzuela, no they do not.
A Catalan would get even more upset if you called them a “Spaniard.”
Hitting the 3s that American point guards won’t hit.
Indeed they do. I’m a season ticket holder and I was at the game last night. The Grizz manhandled Portland. It was an awesome wire to wire win.
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