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~~Dirty~~ · 10-23-2010, 07:04 AM

To Those of you Non-Americans... Just curious, because I know the NBA especially has been trying to market the game more towards European countries than they have before... Are there many NBA fans in Europe?? Or among those who like basketball, do they mainly just follow the local, hometown teams? I don't know what the pro league(s) is called over there, but I was scanning some rosters of teams over there and there is a lot of guys who played in the US and were good college players.

Also about soccer.. I think American culture seems more macho, and soccer is viewed as a pussy sport here. I think it all comes back to the flopping in soccer. It just makes soccer players look like pussies and people don't wanna see that. You may see flops from time to time in the NBA(Spurs always flop, I hate them), but it's nothing like soccer flopping. Doesn't seem like European fans mind it much though. I guess it's just part of the game but its a real turn off.

10-23-2010, 07:04 AM	#157 (permalink)
~~Dirty~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: USA Posts: 981	To Those of you Non-Americans... Just curious, because I know the NBA especially has been trying to market the game more towards European countries than they have before... Are there many NBA fans in Europe?? Or among those who like basketball, do they mainly just follow the local, hometown teams? I don't know what the pro league(s) is called over there, but I was scanning some rosters of teams over there and there is a lot of guys who played in the US and were good college players. Also about soccer.. I think American culture seems more macho, and soccer is viewed as a pussy sport here. I think it all comes back to the flopping in soccer. It just makes soccer players look like pussies and people don't wanna see that. You may see flops from time to time in the NBA(Spurs always flop, I hate them), but it's nothing like soccer flopping. Doesn't seem like European fans mind it much though. I guess it's just part of the game but its a real turn off. Last edited by Dirty; 10-23-2010 at 09:34 PM.