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Basketball 2018 Discussion Thread


Yannakis

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This reminds me of last year's athletics world youth champs in Nairobi in terms of atmosphere :bowdown:

 

Yet another bit of evidence the attempt of Rwanda to bring the road cycling world champs to Kigali should be taken very seriously. Bring in some experienced outside help for the organization to avoid the usual Africa Games kind of stuff, the atmosphere will be incredible. 

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

You're watching African Under-18 women's basketball and still there's no escaping this...

 

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've played this video.

#banbestmen

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Just now, dcro said:

 

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've played this video.

Me too, I spent a good 5 minutes to find the right song (searching for 'bailando contigo lyrics' led to an apparently rather large amount of Spanish songs about 'dancing with me' :p ), because I only heard it on the radio a billion times without looking at the title or singer :d 

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've played this video.

It's not my first time:p My spanish teacher loved this song so much. She said she liked the melody, but we all knew she had a crush on Enrique Iglesias

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Someone give that number 4 of Mali a sandwich or something...she's almost putting negative mass on the scales.

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FIBA knows how to bring their sport to people, even the African U18 championships have live streams. We knew that for the women, but now the men have them too on their YouTube channel :p 

 

In 2 hours from now, Mali starts their first game against Guinea, let's see if the atmosphere will be just as awesome (it was already a bit loud at Uganda - DR Congo, so I have high hopes :d).

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20 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

FIBA knows how to bring their sport to people

 

Too bad they can't do anything else for the sport and get their ass whipped by corporations left and right. :d 

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Just now, Federer91 said:

 

Too bad they can't do anything else for the sport and get their ass whipped by corporations left and right. :d 

True but at least we can actually see the sport for free :p 

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