I got lolled at by some women a while back for not knowing who Holly Willoughby was. This may be a controversial view, but 'mums' can fuck off.
Those Portuguese
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Mattingly and Canseco.
I wonder if Mattingly ever got round to shaving his sideburns.
Smart woman you Mum, Lewis. Had me nailed.
Yup, popular a amongst the basketball fans in the big cities. But ask joe regular on the streets, and they won't have heard of him.
Lol ok buddy
1) Will he get a whole day in America dedicated to his life
2) Will the NBA change the logo to a silhouette of Kobe
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They literally named a restaurant after him in Ho Chi Minh City lol I bet you sure feel silly now
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He's just repackaged my joke there, the little shit.
I wanna say you Brits, with so many of your own Commonwealth-restricted sports to worry about, underestimate the global popularity of basketball. (America does precisely the same thing with soccer.) It’s pretty huge in random places like Turkey. A pretty solid test is that any place where people know what Utah is, loves basketball.
We are pretty much non-existent when it comes to basketball, although I think we have had two or three NBA players over time. NFL is big as a hipster watching-only sport, but isn't played. Ice hockey has a very niche, but established domestic league. Basketball just doesn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Basketball_League
I mean look at the state of that. Curiously though I think everyone will have been forced to play it in PE at some point, more so than our bigger sports, I guess because it's playable in confined spaces.
I was on the school basketball team and I was considered pretty good and I was awful. We just don't have the facilities for it in the UK to become one of those sports that people play in their freetime. Meanwhile, literally every playground here has at least a half court set-up.
Someone once scored the equivalent of an own goal in one of my PE lessons where we played basketball. Pretty sure we never played it again after that. God bless you, Swanny.
I'm a twit
They televise the basketball finals on regular TV here (was on last weekend) but it’s still very small time. Slightly bigger than our domestic American Football league.
Apparently there's been 12 Brits make it to the NBA. The only one I can think of is Luol Deng. Newcastle Eagles got some relatively decent local coverage when they were a big fish in a paddling pool.
All that needed was one of the kids fist-pumping after a rim shot. Follow that up, lads. Open goal.
I watched NBA on TNT tonight and cried like a babe.
Shaq rounded it off beautifually
Half courts are everywhere done here and they are usually occupied in the afternoons with locals getting amongst it.
Hadn't really thought about this but the UK really is very different than the rest of Europe when it comes to major sports. Countries like France and Spain as well as the Balkans have both basketball and handball as big, big sports, then the northern and eastern countries have hockey as well as things like floorball and handball, especially at young ages.
If a British kid is playing a teamsport that isn't football, is it cricket? I guess rugby is big?
Football and rugby (either code) in the winter, cricket in the summer is the team sports setup here. Also a reasonable amount of (field) hockey in some regions.
Handball does not exist at all as far as I am aware. Well, someone will play it somewhere, but it is never reported on.
Netball for girls is popular.
Sorry go on please?
Is there a cooker on the court?
I don't think you can move with the ball, so they're literally keeping women in place.
And you're not allowed to go out of your designated sector of the court either. Only 2 of the 7 players are allowed to score.
You guys are NUTTERS as they say.
If you give a slight shit about it at all, I highly recommend the NBAonTNT memorial they did last night. I cried like a babe the whole way through, watching these incredibly strong men coming together and not only celebrating the man but coming to terms with making sure you appreciate people while they're still around. It was truly beautiful.
This weeks Shaqtin' A Fool is gonna be a weird one.