National Basketball Association criticisms and controversies. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has faced a multitude of criticisms from both sports publications and fans. Racial and cultural issues. While some observers have argued that this criticism has more to do with race than hip hop itself, it is a fact that the league is very much connected to hip hop culture. Rappers Nelly and Jay- Z had ownership stakes in NBA teams (the Charlotte Hornets and Brooklyn Nets respectively), and many artists have worn NBA throwback jerseys in music videos. In turn, the NBA plays rap and hip- hop in arenas during games. NBA video games NBA 2. K and NBA Live use hip- hop in their soundtrack, and ABC/ESPN also use the music during its coverage. Players in the NBA have tried rap or hip hop themselves (Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Tony Parker, Allen Iverson, Chris Webber, and Ron Artest are some examples) and several also dress and act in ways that are in accordance with the hip hop culture (for example, the tattoos and jewelry worn by several players). Some have argued that the criticism of the NBA is hypocritical, considering the relative lack of criticism of Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL) or National Football League (NFL) players. Sterling that she would 'get even' with him. Players were instructed not to wear jewelry, throwback jerseys, headphones, indoor sunglasses and other accessories, and instead were told to wear . GISS Surface Temperature Analysis Analysis Graphs and Plots. This page is updated each month by an automatic procedure. Additional figures based on the. The dress code, characterized by some as . Many players objected, most notably Allen Iverson, who has faced the brunt of most hip hop related NBA criticism. Baggy shorts, also a symbol of hip hop culture, were banned by the league as well, which instituted a rule on the length of players' shorts while playing. Tights, which players started to wear under their shorts in the 2. No players were fined for dress code violations during the 2. The league has also attempted to severely distance itself from hip hop since the infamous Pacers. In addition, as noted later in this article, ABC Sports (after relying on hip- hop music early on) has used artists such as Rob Thomas and Tom Petty for the NBA Finals in recent years. Team relocation controversies. On January 2. 5, 2. Grizzlies would be sold by Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment to Michael Heisley, who originally intended to keep the team in Vancouver. However, the team moved, in part due to the weak Canadian dollar, lack of local ownership, and the unwillingness of some players to live in Canada. After a bidding war between Memphis, Louisville, Anaheim and New Orleans, Heisley selected Memphis as the relocation destination for the Grizzlies on March 2. After failed efforts to persuade Washington state government officials to provide funding to update Key. Arena, the Super. Sonics' ownership group, led by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, sold the team to Professional Basketball Club LLC (PBC), an investment group headed by Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett. After failing to persuade local governments to fund a US$5. Bennett's group notified the NBA that it intended to move the team to Oklahoma City and requested arbitration with the city of Seattle to be released from its lease with Key. Arena. When the request was rejected by a judge, Seattle sued Bennett's group to enforce the lease that required the team to play in Key. Arena through 2. 01. On July 2, 2. 00. Details of the settlement revealed that PBC would pay the city of Seattle $4. Key. Arena lease and an additional $3. Seattle was not given a replacement team in five years. Also, according to the conditions of the settlement, the Sonics' name and colors could not be used by the team in Oklahoma City, but could be taken by a future team in Seattle, although no promises for a replacement team were given. The OKC team would retain the franchise history of the Super. Sonics, which could be . The team moved to Oklahoma City immediately and became the Oklahoma City Thunder, beginning play for the 2. Carlesimo in which he choked his coach and threatened to kill him. The incident brought mainstream attention, but not quite the amount of criticism of the league as a whole as later controversies would. While some wondered if Sprewell's actions were indicative of a growing trend in the league, others tempered that belief with the idea that it was an isolated incident. Then active player Buck Williams said this on PBS. It's a different player. Ces Faux-cils en bande 100 % cheveux naturels de la nouvelle collection I’m in love de Melkior intensifient et donnent de la profondeurTip: Recently, I spoke with a technology coordinator who had just completed a month-long Internet Safety unit for fifth graders. Reader 'Sasha' responding to Jeff Alberts in comments provided a large list that I thought was worth sharing. Submitted on 2014/04/02 at 8:37 am The question wasn’t. On June 22, 1998, New York magazine published a much talked about cover profile of stratospheric actor Leonardo DiCaprio under the title “Leo, Prince of the City.”. And I think what's happening, you know, in our environment, in our society, is sort of. I mean, a lot of the players are young and sort of misunderstood. And it takes a very special coach, and it takes quite an understanding organization to try to deal with the new athlete. However, after a contentious battle with the Minnesota Timberwolves over his salary in 2. Sprewell retired for good in 2. After his retirement, he suffered several financial difficulties, including his home being foreclosed on and having his yacht forcibly seized and sold at auction. Anger and blame was placed on the players, at NBA Union Chief Billy Hunter, who protested the length of suspensions. USA Today's Ian O'Connor wrote. It's healthy to ask tough questions about the uneasy state of race relations in sports and beyond; the more these issues are addressed in public forums, the better the chance of not having to examine them in the future.. Sometimes we see race when we should simply see foolishness and hate. That's the product of living inside a sports culture where equal opportunity on the coaching, executive and ownership levels remains an elusive ideal. Noted conservative radio personality (and former ESPN NFL analyst) Rush Limbaugh said the brawl was . They are in gang styles. And I know for a fact that they're not all the same, so I wonder why they're so easily generalized. Maybe we're not doing as good of a job as we should be doing, or maybe there's something else at work.
This altercation was the most penalized on- court fight since the Pacers. Carmelo Anthony of the Nuggets was suspended for 1. J. Smith and Nate Robinson were suspended for 1. Neither coach was suspended; still, some believed that then- Knicks coach Isiah Thomas should have been suspended for allegedly telling his players to foul any Nuggets player who attempted a dunk or layup. NBA Commissioner David Stern received criticism for not including Thomas in the suspensions. ESPN analyst and former NBA player Greg Anthony stated that . I've had a coach say, do a better job protecting our territory. That's a little different. Several columnists agreed, including Sam Smith (who called the coverage . Adande and David Aldridge. One of the main topics of the deal was the league's desire to create a new age limit for players to enter the NBA draft. The idea of an age limit had been talked about for several years, after the entrance into the league of several high school players. While several players who have entered the league out of high school have become successes (Kobe Bryant, Le. Bron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, J. Smith, Amar'e Stoudemire, Jermaine O'Neal, Rashard Lewis, Tracy Mc. Grady, and decades ago, Shawn Kemp and Moses Malone), others have been relative failures (for example, Ndudi Ebi, James Lang, Kwame Brown, Sebastian Telfair, Eddy Curry, Robert Swift, De. Sagana Diop). Those in favor of an age limit made the argument that players entering the league out of high school did not know the fundamentals of playing professional basketball and also were not mature enough to handle playing in the NBA. But as you frame the issue, the question is whether a couple of years more of seasoning would increase their maturity, their skills, their collegiate programs and ultimately what it could do for sending messages to kids who are practicing their skills who should think about getting an education rather than coming right to . Beyond excellence in performance, high school players can also earn substantially more over the course of their NBA careers .. Anthony's belief was that people should be able to make their own decisions about whether or not to enter the league, and that (quoting an article and not Anthony himself) . On an April 2. 00. NBA Shootaround, Anthony and Smith got into a heated debate about the age- limit. You don't hear about it in baseball or hockey. To say you have to be 2. If I can go to the U. S. Army and fight the war at 1. In the last two or three years, the Rookie of the Year has been a high school player. There were seven high school players in the All- Star game, so why we even talking . Any person attempting to enter the NBA draft must wait until the calendar year of his 1. No tolerance rule. Basketball is an emotional game; guys are always going to express their thoughts about calls. There are times you are going to disagree. Does David Stern believe that disallowing the players' protests will fool fans into accepting the infallibility of the refs? And such ridiculousness was one reason why too many consumers perceived NBA players as self- absorbed, overbearing, churlish and out of touch. Too many are out of touch with the people who pay the freight. Who pays to come to the arena to see this demonstrative complaining? The notion some players have put forth, that the NBA is trying to take the emotion from the game, is so preposterous it's insulting. Several players, including Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson, were still ejected on technical fouls; Iverson's ejection came during his first game against his former team, the Philadelphia 7. Steve Javie ejected him on the basis of a feud the two supposedly had. Since 1. 98. 0, every NBA Finals has involved at least one of the following teams: Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, or San Antonio Spurs. Gratuitous French - TV Tropes? And don't forget that French used to be the lingua francanote . Interestingly, when Gratuitous English meets Keep It Foreign, Gratuitous French is a common substitute. Notable tunes in that language include . In the omake Yumi's seiyuu pronounces . Tamao often cites brutal Flench phrases related to the Etoile system. A Stand in Part 8 is known as . Bonaparte) in Yu- Gi- Oh! GX peppers his speech with rather poor French phrases. Kotobuki Ran uses a few French words. French speakers appreciate the subtitles. Justified as based on The Count of Monte Cristo, a French novel by Alexandre Dumas, that is mostly set in France. WHERE IS THE BATHTUB?! Either that or they're a mess of numbers, letters, and underscores. While it's not exactly bad French, the grammar is a bit off sometimes. In the original Japanese she peppers her speech with English instead. Just about every other word of hers is in French. They shot off back and forth either speaking in figurative English or French. Sherry Leblanc from Yu- Gi- Oh 5. D's. Her name is bad enough, but her cae monster's name is . The English game translates it as . The lyrics are nonsense most of the time, being versions of the Japanese lyrics with French peppered in. In an international boarding school surrounding where English is presumed to be the language of consent, he throws in some French here and there, most notably when drawing his tarot cards (which are in French, of course) or when commenting on other characters' behaviour. The latter makes him much a French Jerk, especially in Alfred's eyes. One of her attacks is even in French: . This is not done for the British characters. It also counts for Everything Sounds Sexier in French. Non, est Super- Homme!! Wich makes no sense, unless France was actually Bizarro World all along.. Wich would explain a lot, come to think of it. After meeting the owners, Shinji and Asuka learn some French words and use them every so often (it helps the fanfic. The staff at AXL's Game Center taught me some cool French phrases, you know. Kate Mc. Millan as follows. It's implied to be an affectation, however, along with most (but not all) the rest of his harmless. Camp Gay mannerisms, as it completely disappears when someone starts treading on thin ice. It's also shown that while he's fluent in English, he doesn't always know the right word or phrase. I have sampled every language, French is my favourite - fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'encul. My God, it's like wiping your ass with silk, I love it. In the French version of the movie, the Merovingian still speaks French. The French dubbing switches this to Spanish. And it's still shorter than the proper French for it (. It's a case of Franglish actually. Did you just call moi a dipshit?! This leads to an inversion in The Rocket when the Anglophone coach congratulates his Francophone players for winning the Stanley Cup in French. It's seen as a surprising moment of him lowering himself to show his appreciation. Then Leopold says that he doesn't know that much French actually so he had probably said the only line in French that he knows. The only French sentence spoken in the movie (by Dr. Schultz) is perfectly correct. Is that why you suddenly speak French? Fair enough, until you realise that they're all French, and they live in France, so their French is already being translated into English. What language is that? In Cinderella (2. Ella is fluent in French, since her father has taught her since she was a child. Lady Tremaine and her daughters are perplexed to discover that Ella pronounces and makes complete sentences better than them, to the point that Drisella and Anastasia think she is speaking . It was a sign of an educated person to . If you didn't, tant pis - too bad for you. Good luck trying to figure out what they hell everyone's talking about if you aren't bilingual, because occasionally plot- relevant information is given only in French. Humbert is particularly given to this, and he gets kinda snooty when other characters use bad French. At one point, Lolita even calls him on this, saying that people find it rather annoying when he speaks French. Except that he actually uses less French than Christie's sympathetic English characters, who pepper their speech with French phrases. The reason is that Christie associated the use of French phrases with intelligent sophistication, not with arrogant pretension. Of course, French was the official language of the court of Imperial Russia. Sayers' crime novels frequently indulges in them. However, he a) IS not only sophisticated but also fluent in French and b) is usually conversing with other English people who can be expected (in the '2. French- language exposure at school. The most famous of these is undoubtedly ressentiment, and the penultimate section of Ecce Homo concludes with a motto from Voltaire. Head of S gives the full French title of the law note Loi tendant . M rings him up, asks what (it is implied) . The next time you want to show off your knowledge of foreign jaw- breakers, be so good as to use a cribnote (i. Better still, write in English. In Young Adult Novel, when Horace Gerstenblut, the Lord High Executioner (i. The cards were highly popular, though dozens of students had to ask what the words meant. Wodehouse's novels often uses French phrases, sometimes wondering if they're correct (according to the footnotes, usually yes). Jeeves is equally prone to this. From the Jeeves- narrated . It's amazing how many fancy French titles they can give to dishes made out of mud and old boots. Most of what he says is complete bullshit to a native French- speaker, as a result of the author's sloppy research. Justified as she is, after all, a French girl, but the multi- paragraph chunks of French can be daunting to the non- bilingual reader. She is depicted as unworldly, verging on Cloud. Cuckoolander- territory, but is in fact both intelligent and wise. In Aunt Dimity's Good Deed, she disguises herself as a French girl who is Willis Sr.'s ward and speaks French as a part of the cover, getting information from locals about Gerald Willis. Years later, she falls for Kit Smith, then her father's stable master and twice her age (She's 1. He doesn't want to take advantage of her youth and tells her so, but he sneaks into her grandfather's estate to see her after her riding accident in Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday. When he goes to leave her bedside, he says, . For example, Rimmer once gives a false smile which is described as trompe- l'oeilnote . Using French in order to look sophisticated is an essential trait of Nancy's personality. He also gets to show off his English and Italian, but to a lesser extent. Makes sense, as the family is one of the oldest wizarding families in Britain, and French is the language of the British upper- class for centuries after the Norman conquest. But then, they are French.. She also habitually calls Thomas Cromwell . Perhaps most memorable amongst the mangled Del- speak French is his expansive exhortation of bonnet de douche . Del: You can say that again, bruv. You're still struggling with English. In eipsode 8 (Needs), doll Tango appears with her handler during a tense escape scene. She's speaking French, but instead of a Bilingual Bonus, it ends up causing unintentional levity for some tropers, because the dialogue is stiltedly written and painfully delivered. In heavily American- accented French, Tango remarks. Its successor, Iron Chef America, is an American version. Both have the same call to arms, . Peter: My French is a little rusty. Later, they mostly just let him be British. He has many other French- isms. In his early appearances, we got little speech bubbles translating them onscreen, but that didn't last. Even his name is an example: his real name proves to be a much more Japanese Gennosuke Oren. The other teams were more confused than impressed, especially since the only other person who understands French is not present. And later, we find out that not even her team mate, Ash, understands her. It's coherent enough unless you read the album notes, which transcribe it wrong and then translate it wrong. Je t'adore, Ich liebe dich! Justified by the fact that the song is set in New Orleans. The song is a Shout- Out to a 1. French horror movie that's been released under both titles. Less gratuitous than most, however, since they are from the French- speaking Canadian province of Quebec. Interestingly, Melanie Mongeon is a Francophone by default and spoke very little English when she joined, and she essentially learned English by forcing herself to write the majority of her lyrics in it. When translated, it basically describes the song. Nevertheless, when they released their anthology, what did they title it? Probably will be more common now that she's based in Paris. The song, however has no French to speak of. I kick nonsense in French tasty like Crepe Suzette. The song is in the singers' native Italian, except for the titular question, asked at the beginning and end of each verse. Of course, the entire song is not supposed to make any sense. There's gratuitous French in the first track on their debut, an album which also has a song called . The band name itself means nothing. Though none of the band were native French speakers, they were formed in Ontario, Canada, which does have a significant francophone population. The song is about a scene in a movie the singer can't remember the name of. Except for a few random lines. Putain, je ne sais pas! Ne vien pas pleurer vers moi . When Sam points this out, Joshua responds that everybody knows French is just decorative and it doesn't matter what the words mean — and anyway, he doesn't know what most words in English mean either, and he's never let that stop him. Fluent in French, he has been known to perform his stand- up specials in French for French- speakers, and frequently includes segments in French in front of English- speaking audiences.
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