Shams: Raptors sign Mamukelashvili to a two-year, $5.5 million deal (player option)

[mtcan]

Man... I can't be the only one here who's pi**ed at Matt and Jack's moronic jokes about Mamu's name, right? That would have been lazy and infantile in the 90s, but joking about not being able to pronounce an own foreign player's name in 2025? So cringey even the first time you hear it, but they keep doing it 50 times a game.

Oh but that's not even the worst part of it. Instead, the guy out of the two who's supposed to know the player's name fu***ng says it wrong, every single time! Did anyone with a single brain cell in the entire network read that name carefully even just once? The guy's name is not MamuSHkelashvili, there's no SH there. How the f**k is it so hard to learn a name? So close to turning the sound of man, too much stupidity to just enjoy the game...

Ya Jack and Matt were doing too much.

It’s not even a hard name to pronounce…

Mamu-kelash-vili

Not sure why they’re struggling with that.

on the postive note its why I love Herbie Kuhn so much. That man gets every single inflection down to a science

They kept putting an 's' in the middle of his last name. I could listen to it again after a while.

[lolwut]

He's not even foreign. He was born in the US.

[MEDIC]

Excellent Boucher replacement. The Raps did well here.

I would.love to.see him get some.minutes with Yak.

[NBA Sheady]

Man... I can't be the only one here who's pi**ed at Matt and Jack's moronic jokes about Mamu's name, right?

It's incredibly disrespectful and (this is probably too much for this board) but it's also an act of "othering". It's a reinforcement of cultural norms and it's disgusting bigotry.