German Newspaper: "First White MVP Since Larry Bird" defeats "Ghetto Basketball"

[Still a Democrat]

Here are some of the piece's more wretched bits:

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Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks will be included in an illustrious list of winners and NBA most valuable player "of the Final Series (Most Valuable Player) of the past 25 years. He is the first white MVP since Larry Bird.

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That street ball, threaten Rap and ghetto chic and the commercial success of the sport, has recognized the league itself years ago. At that time the players were still dressed with gold chains and hung in the gangsta look: baseball caps, schlabberige pants, long T-shirts and sneakers were open standard.

The wide - white in the majority - aware American public takes this shoddy outfit but with street gangs and the mainly black rappers scene here. The organization wants the NBA, the basketball bothered as a family sports marketing for all. Therefore, a dress code was enforced. The players must now appear in a suit and tie the game.

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The skin color is U.S. observers have noted that one of the causes that explain the success of the final series with the viewers. The fact that this is a white star while the throne conquer is certainly good for the commercial success, writes columnist Bill Foxsports Reiter. Even if it is a sad fact that the skin color in general still play a role.

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Nowitzki is the man who would hesitate to the average American is not in his living room. He is reticent, has manners and is cultivated.

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http://deadspin.com/5811983/german-newsp...basketball

[Still a Democrat]

"Nowitzki is the man who would hesitate to the average American is not in his living room. He is reticent, has manners and is cultivated."

[NJMaverick]

I am a bit hesitant to comment as the work was translated. With such a sensitive topic even slight translation errors or simple lack of matching words can create very different meanings. Still the over all term doesn't appear to be a good one.

[Ikonoklast]

Germans sure have low standards.

[Brewman_Jax]

Considering recent history, a bunch of white Germans wreaked havoc on the world twice in the early half of the 20th Century. They might want to re-think the racist aspect of the aforementioned article.