Spanish Basketball Team Celebrates Trip to China With Slant-Eye Team Photo [2008 Beijing Olympics]

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Spanish Show Sensitive, Racist Side
Published 8/11/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... Spain is hoping to host the 2016 Olympic games, and Deadspin's Clay Travis displays admirable faith in humanity by assuming this will impact their chances in one way or another, instead of assuming what I assume: the country that gets the Olympics pays the most luxurious and frequent bribes. And no one, repeat, no one was going to beat China to these games in that department. So, this bit of exceptional cultural insensitivity means the price tag for the Games for Spain, already ...

Spanish Team Should Be Prepared to Get Called Into the Principal's Office
Published 8/11/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... (via Deadspin) the Spanish team recently took out a full-page ad in Marca featuring the above photo -- the 15-man squad all mocking the eyes of their Olympic hosts. It's a shock upon our camraderian sensibilities, for sure, but hardly the worst thing Spanish athletes have done. ...

The 10-man rotation, starring 'Betrayal Skull Dude'
Published 8/11/2008 by J.E. Skeets at Ball Don't Lie
... dear reader, to figure out. C: Plain Dealer. Boozer's nickname in China as "Fan Gu Zai," which, loosely translated, means ... well, see above. PF: The Blowtorch. Trye's excellent guide to wearing headbands, with accompanying photos. SF: Beijing Sports Smog. Craig Sager discusses his blond fetish, Beijing Hooters, and his lucky blue thong. SG: The Guardian, via Deadspin. The ultimate WTF: Team Spain's controversial basketball team picture. ...

This is Not Good for Spain
Published 8/11/2008 by Dime Magazine at Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers
... in the sports daily Marca, the country’s best-selling newspaper. According to The Guardian, the advertisement features a photo of the men’s team and one of the women’s squad with each player, including Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol, making slit-eyed gestures. The teams are posing on a basketball court decorated with a picture of a Chinese dragon, and each player appears to be pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes. You can check out the reported image of the ad HERE . Source: ...

ICYMI: Spun to Death
Published 8/11/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Hugging Harold Reynolds) at Hugging Harold Reynolds
In case you missed it, the Spanish Hoops Team sings: We Chinese We Not Nice We Do Pee Pee In Your Rice. We Chinese We Play Joke We Do Pee Pee In Your Coke. ...

The Spanish Hoops Team Isn’t Very Racially Sensitive
Published 8/11/2008 by Marcel Mutoni (marcelmutoni@gmail.com) at SLAM Online
Just take a look at their team picture. Yikes. (Via: Deadspin)

Is The Spanish Nat’l Basketball Team Being Racist??
Published 8/11/2008 by Chuck at Sportaphile
... around the internet today, and the guys appear to be slanting their eyes with their fingers to mimic Asians. The odd thing about this picture, is that it was published by the Spanish Basketball Federation, and these guys obviously put a lot of thought into it (because the photo is not candid whatsoever). Who decided that this would be a good idea? If you’re going to be racist, the least you could do is be FUNNY and racist. [Found via The Guardian and Deadspin] ...

Rudy Fernandez thinks Asians have funny eyes, will find Portland hilarious
Published 8/11/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Jack Brown) at Deceptively Quick
Don't you love the people that go on and on about how folks in Europe are so much more advanced than us dumb hillbillies in the United States? Hearing that never gets old. By the way, check out this team photo of the Spanish National Team that ran in a mainstream Spanish newspaper (via Deadspin): ...

Tolerance Lives In Spain
Published 8/12/2008 by redsarmy at RedsArmy.com: The Voice Of Celtics Fans
... This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. That’s the Spanish basketball team… pushing the sides of their eyes backwards… in the classic, racist, “hey… look at me…. I’m Chinese now” pose.  Yes, that’s Pau Gasol in there too (#4, 3rd from the right).  And yes, there is a pretty good Asian population in LA.  So their reaction to this should be fun. (Via Deadspin) ...

Spanish national team: "Eh? Whatever."
Published 8/13/2008 by Basketbawful (noreply@blogger.com) at Basketbawful
... , or here), but I'll give you a quick summary: The photo shown above -- which features the Spanish men's national basketball team yanking their peepers into a slant-eyed gesture -- ran on the front page of ...

Good Readin' - Wizards and Basketball
Published 9/10/2008 by Truth About It (noreply@blogger.com) at Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog
... First the talking with a lisp thing, then it was the eye-slant thing, and now the Spanish continue to complain about losing to the US in the Olympics. Arrogant +30, Endearing -55. ...