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NBA plans pro league in Africa with direct involvement from former President Barack Obama
AP ^ | Feb. 16, 2019 | Tim Reynolds

Posted on 02/17/2019 4:33:01 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement

Can’t wait for those brackets


61 posted on 02/17/2019 5:47:45 PM PST by Kudsman (If it smells like hoax, quacks like a hoax, itÂ’s probably a Democratic hoax.)
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John Naismith sees this as cultural appropriation.


62 posted on 02/17/2019 5:49:59 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: ConservativeStatement

how is the corruption going to work?
I just don’t see it

match fixing
stadium subsidies
transporting drugs
money laundering

please be specific
tia
Rocky


63 posted on 02/17/2019 5:52:24 PM PST by RockyTx
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To: cdcdawg

Obstinko has a card up his sleeve. He has recruited Big Mike. She/he dribbles and talks trash like a pro!


64 posted on 02/17/2019 5:53:36 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"Not sure how this’ll work. It should be something “organic” with Africans coming up with their own pro leagues, if there’s money in it"

I thought the same thing.

However, Africa cannot pay players very much in real dollars.

Secondly, the instant an African player shows real promise, they'll draft him into the NBA.

Can you imagine a Manute Bol sticking around in Sudan, for love of the game?

Not in a million years.

65 posted on 02/17/2019 5:53:52 PM PST by boop (I say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse.)
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To: political1

damn i miss out on everything


66 posted on 02/17/2019 6:02:29 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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Africa isn’t all that poor. South Africa is pretty developed. So is Botswana. Could probably get 12 team league going in Southern part of the continent. Nothing spectacular. Hold it in high school/college basketball gyms.


67 posted on 02/17/2019 6:04:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Hold it in high school/college basketball gyms.

And hold a fund-raising potluck after the game, with the winners eating the losers ...

Yum, yum ... eat 'em up ...


68 posted on 02/17/2019 6:14:52 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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LOL


69 posted on 02/17/2019 6:16:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ConservativeStatement

I hope Barack Hussein will finally go home to Africa and stay there.


70 posted on 02/17/2019 6:18:06 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Will they have Midnight Basketball Leagues, will Bill Clinton and Al Gore be involved also?????????????


71 posted on 02/17/2019 6:20:16 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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Money transfer to useless “sh**hole” countries, to useless “sh**hole” people. Is there anything better than watching American money be wasted by our “betters”?
Probably another tax dodge to escape that 70% tax rate. “Invest in Africa” and write it ALL off your taxes.


72 posted on 02/17/2019 6:32:09 PM PST by rustyboots
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> “Manute Bol was a good guy. RIP.”

I’d just been familiar with him from basketball, but just read the Wikipedia account of him. I agree.


73 posted on 02/17/2019 6:40:54 PM PST by GJones2 (Manute Bol, good guy)
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To: Bonemaker

Wow, what is that? Is the black man on the left a real person, or is he a fake/digitally created image?


74 posted on 02/17/2019 7:01:33 PM PST by nwrep
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Key & Peele - Basketball Commentary
75 posted on 02/17/2019 7:21:30 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Bonemaker

See comment 75


76 posted on 02/17/2019 8:25:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sounds like a great plan to bring Ebola to our shores.


77 posted on 02/17/2019 9:19:17 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Because on a continent where many are starving or dying of Ebola basketball just isn’t a high enough priority.


78 posted on 02/18/2019 7:34:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ConservativeStatement

Well, we can finally see how good black people are at basketball when they aren’t subsidized by the government to enable them to play basketball all day and night.


79 posted on 02/18/2019 7:41:29 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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