The map of Europe according to NBA

[Ellinas]

NBA is organizing an event called "Europe Live" where American sides will travel to Europe and they will have some games against European sides. One of this games will be played in Turkey (Minessota Timberwolves vs Efes Pilsen).

This map is in the official website of NBA right now. The countries where games are going to be played are in red:


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A mistake? I doubt. Propaganda by an American website ONCE MORE. Let's see for how long the map will be at the site.

[Behelit]

Yes map made by Americans.
When there was riots in France i saw on the American TV that they where talking about it.
Then they showed a map of france to show where citys are burning.
Not even one city was on the right place on the map , not even Paris.
The only thing they know about Turkey is that they eat it for Thanksgiving

[Ellinas]

Originally Posted by Behelit
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Yes map made by Americans.
When there was riots in France i saw on the American TV that they where talking about it.
Then they showed a map of france to show where citys are burning.
Not even one city was on the right place on the map , not even Paris.
The only thing they know about Turkey is that they eat it for Thanksgiving

I know what you are talking about....


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But in this case I feel there is another influence behind this.

[Ellinas]

This moment no map appears at the page:
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They are maybe correcting it.

[Ellinas]

There was a rain of complaints I guess. Map replaced :D :


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[macedonia]

funny :)
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[Prokomenos]

Im surprised they actually did something like that. Then again it does involve America so I shouldnt be surprised.

[Nikoz78]

Jesus.

I want an official apology. I'm going to write them an email and I suggest everyone else do the same.

That was genuinely disconcerting.

Hell, it is bad enough that they even consider Turkey a European country; only 3% is in Europe (3% that rightfully belongs to Greece).

But that map was extremely offensive. My family is from Chios too, which is like adding an insult to an insult to an injury.

This is not funny.

[Nikoz78]

You can write NBA.com
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Scroll down to the bottom of the page and let them know Greek-Americans demand an official apology.

The tensions between Greece and Turkey are very real. This shows a severe lack of good judgment or just plain incompetence.

Things like this fuel resentments. And that is dangerous.

We should report this to a media outlet.

If it were almost any other countries it would not matter. But this is like making a map of Israel that includes territories that belong to Palestine.

[Nikoz78]

I joined NBA.com just so I could email them a complaint (pretty much what I wrote above):

I want you to know that as a Greek-American I demand an apology for the very offensive map shown at the link below.

The tensions between Greece and Turkey are very real. This shows a severe lack of good judgment or just plain incompetence.

Things like this fuel resentments. And that is dangerous.

I should report this to a Greek-American media outlet.


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This will likely produce little more than an (expected) apology in my email box. But I feel better.
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I think I may actually report this to the
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