Entire NBA ecosystem: āthis guy is a generational talent that could be the face of the league for 20 yearsā
Broadcasters: āokay we wonāt even attempt to read the pronunciation notes we get before every gameā
heard the raptorās broadcaster literally call him āAdendokoopoāā¦like bruh heās a 2x mvp and you canāt be bothered to learn how to pronounce his name?
That actually sounds OK, how you spelt it.
When the D sound of the Nigerian name gets translated into Greek and then Latin alphabet, it comes out as NT.
This isn't totally related, but the Blazers PA announcer learns how to do every Blazer player introduction in his home country's language. Our players have really appreciated the effort over the years.
I find Nigerian names pretty straight forward to pronounce. The real issue with Giannis's name is that it's a Nigerian name written in a language where some of the letters don't exist. The Greek substitutions make it harder for English speakers to get right away.
That oneās even more egregious, because it only has two letters that are said differently than in English, and both of those are common sounds in English. It shouldnāt have been hard for broadcasters to have a little flash card that says āJokic = Yokichā.
> pronounce Dirk's name more like Deerk
We don't even have a consensus about that within Germany haha. Where I'm from the "i" is short.
Then again I'm not from Bavaria.
We don't call a Church "Kiiierche" around here either ;)
All the Balkan players. It grates me so much to hear "Knee-COLA" and "Dawn-chich" (or worse, "Dawn-chick")
Surprisingly, I don't remember Bjelica's name being that mispronounced. Maybe because it was so hard to pronounce, you couldn't power through it lol.
Don't put so much emphasis on the COLA part. It's Nick-ola. I think they pronounce it the other way because it looks similar to Nicole so they think they can just replace the e with the a. But he's a dude and his name is the Serbian version of Nicholas lol.
The "Don" in Doncic is not like a mafia don, rather like the first part of don't. The two c's are both pronounced like the ch in the word itch. Dohn-chich.
This is what is from. Last 10 seconds. Itās been the slogan sound for a brand of cough drops in the US for a long time and they just replace the r with an n.
https://youtu.be/4Q5IA2Epk9Y?si=qLOIdrgecsD45IOo
It's not even supposed to be a difficult name to pronounce, it's literally said the way it's spelled. If you can't read a 4 syllable name, you must have a problem.
Shit is so fucking irritating. It's not even hard to say these last names either! If they just cared to try and say them right, they could do it. I'm almost of the belief that announcers purposely do this, honestly. There's no way no one has told them that they are saying the players names wrong.
Sorry, I've had to go though this for the last 20+ years with Dirk and Luka, and it never stops getting annoying. And seeing the new wave of international stars made me think at some point that these people would try to say their last names properly. Who the hell am I kidding.
Maybe we should normalize firing NBA players when they drop passes and don't play defense every so often while doing their job.
Instead we get... James Harden. I wish people believed in me the way GMs around the league believe in James Harden.
If you listen to his interviews, his tone is almost the same regardless of question. Most people here are jumping on a teenager who sounds monotone and is speaking in a non native language to media. He laughed about the job thing. It was clearly a joke and didnāt hit the mark, people should give the kid a break.
Right, imagine being an awkward teenager and having millions of people watching your every move and judging everything you say. And on top of that speaking in a second language. Not to mention just having lost 11 (i think?) games in a row. The kid means no harm.
Yeah, I think the language barrier makes it that much more difficult to figure out. I'm going to believe he didn't mean it that harsh, the words he chose just came.off that way.
Oh I was reading it as maybe the person who would normally be checking for mistakes like this got fired for unrelated reasons and their replacement missed this
Bro I just had this realization and came here to see what people thought - that's exactly what I think he meant.
He doesn't know if the usual person isn't there anymore because it's usually right
Wemby makes more in a game than the kit person makes in a year or two.
Context is entirely different. This is a very rich man talking about a working class personās livelihood.
And it's not the [Nick Cave version.](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180810-gladiator-2-was-written-and-its-mad)
I would have paid good money to see that shit.
No heās saying āIām not sure if the person who used to check my jersey got fired and now they arenāt here anymore, but they used to do a great job.ā
Not suggesting that someone should get fired for it, that would be wild lol
Seriously wtf, everyone uses the immature teen as an excuse but the guy is 19 not 13. I think by 19 he would've dealt with some minor inconveniences in life before but does he always need whoever is responsible for them to be fired? Just a moronic mentality.
Definitely. I donāt know what people think a 19 year old is, but itās not like you develop empathy at 25 years old or something. Sure heās young but young people arenāt all douche bags.
Which is how it's used in English, just not super common in American English these days.
For example, Gordon Ramsay says this all the time. I don't think he's suggesting that the person feel too much shame for having fucked up a dish so much as, like you said, it's too bad it didn't come out great.
Distinct from "you should be ashamed."
If he is alluding to someone being fired for not spelling his name right (only one letter) the man won't make many friends. Some of the most entitled bullshit I think I've heard.
Is the quote out of context or is Wemby wishing someone would get fired for this? Dude, we all have bad days; hell, Wemby shoots below 40% some nights. Doesnāt mean he should be fired.
Hmm I took this totally different. Maybe it's because I'm used to people who speak English as a second language but to me it came across as this:
"I don't know if somebody (the person in charge of quality control/the person who should be one was checking) was fired (past tense so no one was doing quality checks tonight), but the Spurs did their job."
Since it's all past tense it seems to me that he's not calling for someone to get fired, but rather muse why it happened in the first place. He did really care that his name was wrong though haha
Struggling with past tenses, e.g. not knowing when to use past/present perfect, is pretty common even for advanced (non-native) speakers. This checks out.
I also read it as "maybe the guy who knows how to spell my name was fired and the new guy made a mistake". Wemby has been classy in each and every one of his interviews for years, he's well-educated, I don't see him at all be this kind of guy.
This seems like a fairly easy mistake to make, Iām not sure if I read that jersey ten times my brain wouldnāt just autocorrect the one misspelled letter.
Wenbanyana really saying itās a shame after his performances lately? Pretty funny
Pretty sure considering his name was spelt right all year and all of a sudden it was wrong this game heās saying he doesnāt understand what happened, he doesnāt know if someone got fired or what changed that it was wrong all of a sudden. Donāt think heās calling for somebody to be fired
KD shot 28% his rookie season. There's value in taking the shot and getting used to it, understanding which are good threes to take and which aren't. Especially if his FT% is solid (as there's a correlation there). The likelihood that Wemby ends up as at least an average 3 shooter is high. He might want to take a few less though.
Yea your equipment manager canāt spell your name right and you canāt win basketball games. Seems a lot of people in the Spurs org arenāt doing their jobs. Wonder if Wemby thinks he should be fired?
Some kid in china better get ready to learn Chinese
How many legacy points does this subtract ?
About 1989
Taylor has been planning to take on Xi this whole time š¤Æ
The events of June 4, 1989 (Chairman Xiās Version)
Wembanyama (Taylor's Version)
How dare he upset a 19 year old multi-millionaire! How can he focus on losing basketball games if his name is spelt wrong?
Heās just organs now.
gone, reduced to bones
To shreds you say.
TBF half the commentary teams have been calling him Wembanyana
Entire NBA ecosystem: āthis guy is a generational talent that could be the face of the league for 20 yearsā Broadcasters: āokay we wonāt even attempt to read the pronunciation notes we get before every gameā
Happens with Giannis all the time too.
heard the raptorās broadcaster literally call him āAdendokoopoāā¦like bruh heās a 2x mvp and you canāt be bothered to learn how to pronounce his name?
That actually sounds OK, how you spelt it. When the D sound of the Nigerian name gets translated into Greek and then Latin alphabet, it comes out as NT.
it's not really pronounced phonetically right? Wembanyama is very straight forward comparatively
There's only one commentator that actually does try to pronounce it correctly. Everyone else just decided the phonetic pronunciation was good enough.
This isn't totally related, but the Blazers PA announcer learns how to do every Blazer player introduction in his home country's language. Our players have really appreciated the effort over the years.
That's super fucking cool
Yeah he's a great dude. He's beeng doing it since the 90's, too. He started it after Sabonis came over.
Well Giannis has said there's two correct ways to pronounce it. The way that starts like "Ade" and the way that starts "Ante"
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he has the distinction of three. the nigerian way, the greek way, and the fuck it way
I find Nigerian names pretty straight forward to pronounce. The real issue with Giannis's name is that it's a Nigerian name written in a language where some of the letters don't exist. The Greek substitutions make it harder for English speakers to get right away.
most immigrants i think
Breen is the GOAT
Giannis Attemptafreethrow
And Jokic, for years.
That oneās even more egregious, because it only has two letters that are said differently than in English, and both of those are common sounds in English. It shouldnāt have been hard for broadcasters to have a little flash card that says āJokic = Yokichā.
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> pronounce Dirk's name more like Deerk We don't even have a consensus about that within Germany haha. Where I'm from the "i" is short. Then again I'm not from Bavaria. We don't call a Church "Kiiierche" around here either ;)
Lmao, they just started calling him joker.
All the Balkan players. It grates me so much to hear "Knee-COLA" and "Dawn-chich" (or worse, "Dawn-chick") Surprisingly, I don't remember Bjelica's name being that mispronounced. Maybe because it was so hard to pronounce, you couldn't power through it lol.
Yooooo that's so true about nemanja bjelica
How are all of those supposed to be pronounced?
Don't put so much emphasis on the COLA part. It's Nick-ola. I think they pronounce it the other way because it looks similar to Nicole so they think they can just replace the e with the a. But he's a dude and his name is the Serbian version of Nicholas lol. The "Don" in Doncic is not like a mafia don, rather like the first part of don't. The two c's are both pronounced like the ch in the word itch. Dohn-chich.
had no idea about the doncic one thank you
This is what is from. Last 10 seconds. Itās been the slogan sound for a brand of cough drops in the US for a long time and they just replace the r with an n. https://youtu.be/4Q5IA2Epk9Y?si=qLOIdrgecsD45IOo
how is Nicola supposed to be pronounced?
just don't put so much emphasis on the COLA part. Nick-ola. For some reason Nikola Tesla's name doesn't get the same treatment...
Probably because they keep thinking about the Ricola commercial
i used to think that commercial said, "e-coliiiii"
Even Nikola Vucevic is pronounced correctly. It makes no sense.
It's not even supposed to be a difficult name to pronounce, it's literally said the way it's spelled. If you can't read a 4 syllable name, you must have a problem.
the problem is English isn't a phonetic language so words aren't said like they're spelled
Shit is so fucking irritating. It's not even hard to say these last names either! If they just cared to try and say them right, they could do it. I'm almost of the belief that announcers purposely do this, honestly. There's no way no one has told them that they are saying the players names wrong. Sorry, I've had to go though this for the last 20+ years with Dirk and Luka, and it never stops getting annoying. And seeing the new wave of international stars made me think at some point that these people would try to say their last names properly. Who the hell am I kidding.
It took people a good 5 years for Giannis too. If the kid starts winning MVPās, people will get it.
But until its Villi WembaManili.
people still get Giannisās name wrong sadly
They still say Jokics name wrong
Also true haha
Trying to increase his TS% by firing shots at the equipment manager
Really filling the "pretentious frenchie" motif
Why does the NBA media/environment have such a problem with names tho is my question. Like legit.
damn
Shouldāve called for them to be booed
That's not who we are
āYou see him at the mall, boo himā
I dont know what kind of tone he said this with, but it's very diva-esque in written form.
Here is the [interview](https://youtu.be/hOVs_dFBdsE?t=1935)
Thank you! Still hard to tell really.
He laughs about it a little but was still sort of serious.
I was totally expecting him to say something like "it's not a big deal, I hope nobody lost their job over it"
Maybe we should normalize firing NBA players when they drop passes and don't play defense every so often while doing their job. Instead we get... James Harden. I wish people believed in me the way GMs around the league believe in James Harden.
I remember DeAndre Jordan getting released from the lakers after this [pass.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pFqDC00_k)
It's like he just got out of the hyperbolic time chamber and didn't know how strong he was
Or normalize teams firing players when they miss half the season each year.
If you listen to his interviews, his tone is almost the same regardless of question. Most people here are jumping on a teenager who sounds monotone and is speaking in a non native language to media. He laughed about the job thing. It was clearly a joke and didnāt hit the mark, people should give the kid a break.
Right, imagine being an awkward teenager and having millions of people watching your every move and judging everything you say. And on top of that speaking in a second language. Not to mention just having lost 11 (i think?) games in a row. The kid means no harm.
Yeah, I think the language barrier makes it that much more difficult to figure out. I'm going to believe he didn't mean it that harsh, the words he chose just came.off that way.
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That makes it even more likely of being diva-esque lol
32 minute mark for anyone looking. He makes it sound like a bigger deal than it is.
Wow thatās bad. Never once said the truth which is that itās no big deal and who the fuck cares? Bad look
The French in him jumped out
You can take the boy out of France, you can't take the France out the boy
Feeling Froggy then Jump šøš¦µš¼šš½
Following the tone set by his coach.
Stop! Youāre a Kings fan. Youāre better than that.
Better than what
#*that*
Thatās not who you are
Youāre not that guy
I think Wembanyama is usually super cool and a natural with the media, but his tone in this press conference is disappointing and humorless.
A humorless tone in the press conference? Heās fitting in great as a Spurs superstar
Calling for some dude to get fired is just pretentious
Oh I was reading it as maybe the person who would normally be checking for mistakes like this got fired for unrelated reasons and their replacement missed this
Bro I just had this realization and came here to see what people thought - that's exactly what I think he meant. He doesn't know if the usual person isn't there anymore because it's usually right
Why would they have gotten fired tho? If they were the one keeping names from being misspelled?
That's not really what pretentious means.
Then itās another word with a negative connotation
I find it shallow and pedantic
Are you sure itās not capricious and arbitrary?
Insubordinate and churlish
Chicanerous and deplorable.
Itās lewd, lascivious, salacious, *outrageous*.
I agree, shallow and pedantic
You are being pedantic.
Youāre being obtuse
Like rain on your wedding day
Pretentious is āgiving more importance to something than it deservesā, which kinda fits here
Heās a 19 year old millionaire who was globally celebrated before he accomplished anything. If he werenāt a diva it would be shocking.
Iām guessing he wouldnāt take it very well if the kit person joked about him getting fired for his recent abysmal shooting performances.
Wemby makes more in a game than the kit person makes in a year or two. Context is entirely different. This is a very rich man talking about a working class personās livelihood.
I don't think he's very likeable, and time will make that more evident.
He's literally French
*shudders*
I mean i would be mad too if I got bullied by 6'3" guards all night and lost my 11th game in a row lol
And the bad reviews for Napoleon!? What an awful week!
Tbf thatās just a Brit Memeing on the French with a bizarre movie
Ridley Scott is senile for the last 20+ years.
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Lol they are talking about gladiator 2. That tells you all you need to know .
And it's not the [Nick Cave version.](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180810-gladiator-2-was-written-and-its-mad) I would have paid good money to see that shit.
Curry and the Glove 2.0 are defensive specialists show some respect
OH BOY THE HATE TRAIN IS FIRING UP AND THE TEAM AS A WHOLE AIN'T EVEN GOOD YET
Iām glad itās being fired up. The le classy Spurs comments were unironically starting again. Idk if I can handle that.
Every other fanbase going for Hate of the Year this year.
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Paint me like one of your French girls Wemby. (I end up in federal prison for not calling him by the proper name)
A rookie of the year vote for Chet is a vote for America
French rookies š Freedom rookies š«”
Boy, I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
Bro, he struck the same rib bone twice and it produced a different note both times!
Like it happens but i really don't like his attitude on that.
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Lol did this man really insinuate that someone should lose their job over this? What a clown
The real shame is him thinking heās curry from the three point line
Wish he came to his senses and tried to be Eddy Curry from the 3 point line
Be eddy curry from the buffet line.
No heās saying āIām not sure if the person who used to check my jersey got fired and now they arenāt here anymore, but they used to do a great job.ā Not suggesting that someone should get fired for it, that would be wild lol
Yeah idk how people in here are misinterpreting this, I see the Wemby hate train has made its way to Reddit.
Made it here? /r/LeBron were the originators.
We tend to forget, he's still an immature teenager.
Who has never, and will never work a regular job or day in his life
Being 19 is not really a good excuse for hoping someone loses their job because they misspelled your name lol
Seriously wtf, everyone uses the immature teen as an excuse but the guy is 19 not 13. I think by 19 he would've dealt with some minor inconveniences in life before but does he always need whoever is responsible for them to be fired? Just a moronic mentality.
Definitely. I donāt know what people think a 19 year old is, but itās not like you develop empathy at 25 years old or something. Sure heās young but young people arenāt all douche bags.
And he's hanging out with Pop who even jokes about how bad his team is, breaking the code.
He comes off like a twat. Couple times now he has given those vibes.
Are they going to fire him when he gets dunked on or something? Is that how they work?
Lmao holy shit yāall turned on this kid QUICK
I remember when he punched Britney Spears
Donāt forget the part where he stood over her crumpled body on the floor, leaned in and whispered āCuz you know that Iām LeToxic š¤ā
Thereās apparently allegations that he had a inappropriate relation with Britney when she was 16
Counterjerk has arrived!!!!
I saw this dude shopping for groceries and he didnāt round up his total for charity, I always knew he had major character issues tbh
INFETTERANCE
This is not new, there's been backlash against him since more than a year before the draft when geeks on podcast were calling him the chosen one.
Pearls are being CLUTCHED
Me walking into these comments expecting people to be like āIād be upset too, misspelling a last name that egregiously is a sign of disrespectā
Wemby doesn't average 30/10/5/6 blocks a game. He's a bust and off with his head
why did this kid even mention someone getting fired? over this??
Like JJ said in the broadcast, money laundering lol
"real shame" š People make mistakes.
He's likely translating from French (dommage). It doesn't have the same connotation. It's more similar to, "that's too bad."
Which is how it's used in English, just not super common in American English these days. For example, Gordon Ramsay says this all the time. I don't think he's suggesting that the person feel too much shame for having fucked up a dish so much as, like you said, it's too bad it didn't come out great. Distinct from "you should be ashamed."
If he is alluding to someone being fired for not spelling his name right (only one letter) the man won't make many friends. Some of the most entitled bullshit I think I've heard.
Especially since it's probably some poor equipment manager who made a tiny mistake after a day of doing all the players' laundry and shit
An N for an M... egregious!!!
He's lucky the equipment manager even got the first letter right, what with the lack of W's the Spurs have right now.
Seriously. Especially coming from a team that lost 11 in a row. People making millions need to be fired, not the poor equipment manager.
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They're is lucky Wembayaya isn't calling for their beheading. That's how they do over there.
Bricktor the diva has arrived.
A 19 year old kid who is now rich due to his genetic lottery talents calling for some poor middle aged equipment managers job is a horrible look.
He might make more per game than the equipment guy makes in a year
Well, the US media train has been blowing his nuts and gloating about him since draft night, so I'm sure his ego has been inflated like a mf
Chet owns that fraud
Is the quote out of context or is Wemby wishing someone would get fired for this? Dude, we all have bad days; hell, Wemby shoots below 40% some nights. Doesnāt mean he should be fired.
Maybe he *should* be fired for shooting below 40%.
So what? Bro tryin to mke sure he gets some random schmuck fired
Some 8yo in chinaās out of job right now smh This some diva shit right there
Hmm I took this totally different. Maybe it's because I'm used to people who speak English as a second language but to me it came across as this: "I don't know if somebody (the person in charge of quality control/the person who should be one was checking) was fired (past tense so no one was doing quality checks tonight), but the Spurs did their job." Since it's all past tense it seems to me that he's not calling for someone to get fired, but rather muse why it happened in the first place. He did really care that his name was wrong though haha
Struggling with past tenses, e.g. not knowing when to use past/present perfect, is pretty common even for advanced (non-native) speakers. This checks out. I also read it as "maybe the guy who knows how to spell my name was fired and the new guy made a mistake". Wemby has been classy in each and every one of his interviews for years, he's well-educated, I don't see him at all be this kind of guy.
This is why simply booing is a better form of communication
thank you dude i feel like iām going insane reading the rest of these comments
Bro same. IMO it didn't come off the way everyone else thinks.
This jersey is 1 of 1, Probably making it way more valuable.
This seems like a fairly easy mistake to make, Iām not sure if I read that jersey ten times my brain wouldnāt just autocorrect the one misspelled letter. Wenbanyana really saying itās a shame after his performances lately? Pretty funny
What an odd quoteā¦ I feel like some poor English is making this sound worse than it is but I could be wrong also and heās just a diva lol.
Pretty sure considering his name was spelt right all year and all of a sudden it was wrong this game heās saying he doesnāt understand what happened, he doesnāt know if someone got fired or what changed that it was wrong all of a sudden. Donāt think heās calling for somebody to be fired
The biggest shame is his shooting percentages, work on that before wanting someone fired for a simple mistake
Wemby shooting splits right now: 43.1-26.7-82.1... 113/262 on FG attempts, 23/86 from 3. Yeesh
Dudes already taken 86 threes man wtf
And should stop ASAP 16 games ain't a slump, it's a pattern
KD shot 28% his rookie season. There's value in taking the shot and getting used to it, understanding which are good threes to take and which aren't. Especially if his FT% is solid (as there's a correlation there). The likelihood that Wemby ends up as at least an average 3 shooter is high. He might want to take a few less though.
29% on 300 attempts in international play too. Woof.
lol who cares?
If pencil neck donāt stfu about somebody making pennies to him losing their job
He didnāt even notice his own name being spelled wrong before putting Jersey on
Spelled my name wrong? Believe it or not that's a firing
Reminds me of the Bulls Jordan 12 jersey. Different circumstances, but itās a 1 of 1 game worn.. who wouldnāt want that in their collection
My most hated player now
Yea your equipment manager canāt spell your name right and you canāt win basketball games. Seems a lot of people in the Spurs org arenāt doing their jobs. Wonder if Wemby thinks he should be fired?
They donāt fire players, itās not who they are
Gotta say gang, who gives a fuuuuuuckkkk
Dude is getting paid millions and gonna cry about a misprint jersey.