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04-07-2015, 05:49 AM
It's a publicity stunt. It's the Sacramento Kings.
They haven't even sniffed the playoffs in nearly a decade. They need another way to keep getting fans through the door.
Look at this whole 'Sauce Castillo' thing they have going on for Nik Stauskas. The dude is averaging 4 points on 35 percent shooting and he is getting his own theme night and line of merchandise.
Sim is huge and he put up some ok numbers in the D-League. But that was for a team playing at a crazy fast pace which helps inflate his stats due to the extra possessions, rebounds available etcetera.
I doubt he'll ever find a home in the NBA. The NBA is another animal. The game is just too quick for a player of his mobility.
Respect to him for working hard though and getting a deal. But when your 7 foot 5 and 350 pounds and can even play just a little your gonna get some intrigue.
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04-07-2015, 08:38 AM
The man has potential. He is just a bulky and big project, he had a good college career I believe at New Mexico State. The other part is business. The Kings owner wants to corral the India market just like, the Houston Rockets did for China. The NBA wants a bigger presence in India and the King's ownwe wants to take the lead.
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04-07-2015, 01:43 PM
Apparently the NBA has been trying to put forward their efforts to gain support in India just the same way they did in China with the whole Yao Ming thing. This is happening in the WWE as well where a lot of the fan base is from India. I think he will do ok in the NBA.
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04-07-2015, 01:54 PM
Quote: (04-07-2015 05:08 AM)Moma Wrote:
First Indian in NBA signed by Sac Kings
Sim Bhullar is the first Indian to make it to the NBA. He hails from the dick softening capital of the world, Toronto, Canada. He's Punjabi and I noticed that the Punjabi seem to be the larger stronger bunch of Indians that I have come across. I'm no expert of course and I'm sure our Indian members can clear up any speculations.
It's good that he made it. Good move for India who I feel should have more athletes in other fields than cricket.
However, I noticed that the owner of the Kings is also Indian. Did he hook up a countryman, I wonder? I say this because Sim was initially cut for the 2014 draft and had to work his skillset up in the D-League.
Yes, he also promotes bollywood night for games and other Indian events. He's really big in promoting the game in Indian with the hopes of finding a big time talented star
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04-07-2015, 02:04 PM
The first real Indian player from India should be this guy called Satnam Singh Bhamara who should be entering this year's draft. He is a 7'2" 19 year old whom they picked out of a village some years ago.
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04-07-2015, 07:50 PM
Quote: (04-07-2015 05:10 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Punjab is a wide open plain so plenty of foreigners have come through over the years. Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Afghans, Central Asians, British have all been in the area over the years. A lot of the men ended up joining the military.
There's also been a lot of mixing. I got my DNA data from 23andMe and had it analyzed by GEDMatch. Apparently I'm only around 40% Indian.
Is this something you're proud of?
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04-07-2015, 09:05 PM
Quote: (04-07-2015 08:49 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Quote: (04-07-2015 07:50 PM)civpro Wrote:
Quote: (04-07-2015 05:10 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Punjab is a wide open plain so plenty of foreigners have come through over the years. Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Afghans, Central Asians, British have all been in the area over the years. A lot of the men ended up joining the military.
There's also been a lot of mixing. I got my DNA data from 23andMe and had it analyzed by GEDMatch. Apparently I'm only around 40% Indian.
Is this something you're proud of?
No, I'm just stating facts. I mentioned it to show how much mixing there's been over the years.
What is 'Indian' according to the test you did? And what is the 60% of you that's 'not Indian'?
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04-07-2015, 09:36 PM
If you have a good eye for this shit [like I do] you can tell what STATE an Indian person is from just by looking at them.
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04-07-2015, 10:07 PM
^ Simply by meeting enough Indians and learning their background you will learn easily.
While I'm not African Ive gotten good at picking out an ethiopian, somalian, eritrean, and so forth. India is the same way. Of course there's many states but certain areas such as Punjab have classic looks.
Bhullar for example clearly looks Sikh. Not surprising given they are the only Indians with some natural physical presence.
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04-07-2015, 11:54 PM
Quote: (04-07-2015 09:20 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Quote: (04-07-2015 09:05 PM)civpro Wrote:
Quote: (04-07-2015 08:49 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Quote: (04-07-2015 07:50 PM)civpro Wrote:
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Punjab is a wide open plain so plenty of foreigners have come through over the years. Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Afghans, Central Asians, British have all been in the area over the years. A lot of the men ended up joining the military.
There's also been a lot of mixing. I got my DNA data from 23andMe and had it analyzed by GEDMatch. Apparently I'm only around 40% Indian.
Is this something you're proud of?
No, I'm just stating facts. I mentioned it to show how much mixing there's been over the years.
What is 'Indian' according to the test you did? And what is the 60% of you that's 'not Indian'?
Indian as in the races from the Indian subcontinent, the rest was Middle Eastern, central Asian, western China and a tiny bit of European.
Eh, but that still doesn't answer what is Indian, what is "from the Indian subcontinent". Because everybody who's there used to not be there and from somewhere else. First the Austroasiatics, then the Dravidians, then the Aryans, then other tribes, then the Muslims, etc.
If some Central Asian Shakas (Scythians) settled in the Ganges Basin in 800 BC and assimilated into Vedic society then are they "foreign", looking back from now? It is a matter of delineation.
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04-08-2015, 01:10 AM
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Punjabis are known to be the bad-asses of the Indian subcontinent. This comes as no surprise.
'Punjabis' include a variety of ethnic sub-groups like Sikhs , Sindhis etc. If you are including the entire Indian sub-continent then you're including groups like Pashtuns , Balouchs , Kashmiris etc. Even within the country India , there are groups like Coorgis who are pretty bad-ass by any standards. You then have the Gorkhas who are on a different level all together. It's no way as cut and dried as mentioned.
I see this thread has completely deviated so i'll just add my 2 cents as an American who'se been in India for the past 3 years. The amount of misinformation you generally get is laughable and the north / south divide is a thing of the past generally held on to by Indians who have grown up in the West or Westerners themselves. In an India that is increasingly modernizing and growing at a rapid pace there are a fair number of 'fair-skinned' Indians in the southern cities like Bangalore due to migration in addition to pockets of communities in the South like Coorgis that are 'fair'. The picture shown above is laughably one sided because it compares wealthy North Indians to poor South Indians. The wealth distribution is more or less equal with cities like Bangalore , Hyderabad and Chennai undergoing serious urbanization and investment and this is a picture of well groomed South Indian girl. I know which one i'd prefer.
http://mail.alpina-watches.com/press/pag...aria_3.jpg
With respect to sports there is a lot of awareness now other than Cricket but if I had to pick a couple of sports to really thrive it would be motor sports and football (European). The NFL and MLB all set up grass root organizations which were a disaster and the sooner we Americans realize the world doesn't give a shit about our sports the better it will be. I could see the NBA gaining traction but it will be firmly behind the big 3 - Cricket , Motor sports and Euro football. There has already been a Indian F1 driver and there have been whispers about some seriously talented Indians in youth academies of European powerhouses.
To my Indian and Asian brothers , ignore the racist crap that mainstream American society seems to have cultivated. You guys went to America with nothing , didn't speak the language and rose to become the wealthiest ethnic sub-groups. To the talented Indians in India , you guys are on the front-lines of probably the biggest socio-economic change in history and if this ancient great country takes it's rightful place in the world again I'll be there drinking bhang-lassi , bursting crackers and toasting the kama-sutra with you guys.
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04-08-2015, 01:13 AM
Yeah, comparing rich North Indians to poor South Indians is unfair.
There are some hot as hell South Indian/ Sri Lankan girls out there with dark skin.
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04-08-2015, 09:18 AM
The ancient hindu kingdoms of 'aryavarta' (The aryan / hindu realm) included afghanistan, parts of persia, Nepal, Tibet, parts of China, south east asia and extended into the central asian republics like tajikistan, uzbekistan and the russian steppe etc).
This puts a different spin on what is Indian / aryan / hindu and what is not.
If we judge ethnic affiliations by the 'modern' borders that exist between countries, we end up getting some big distortions.
The point is 'Aryans' (followers of the vedas, who most people of the Indian sub continent are descended from) ranged from blue eyed folks from the caucuses all the way down to the dark skinned tamils, chatti's and cholas.
As far as Punjabi's being the 'bad asses' of India, sure they rightly deserve their place along with the Rajputs, Marathas, Pratiharas, Cholas, Vijaynagari's and Gurkha's (I'm sure I'm missing a few)
Coupled with the fact that there is a high concentration of Jatt's and Rajputs in the Punjab, that produce a physically and culturally very hardy people.
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