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I know for the all-star game they do the canadian and american anthems...but we only have one canadian team now. the nba has so many international players....we should so something for them too!

Imagine if NBA expands to Europe. They are gonna have to play 10 national anthems before every game.

The Spurs' pregame show would take half an hour.

They'd have to reserve an entire day to get through anthems for all the countries represented by NBA players.

There should be no anthems at all, since there is no point of playing them. It's not like Team USA plays Team Canada or something.

It's individual players of different cities teams. Cities not countries.

pre-game "entertainment" is long enough as it is

meh, as long as canada has a team they deserve it

they should play the national anthem where the game is being played and where the majority of the fans are from.

it seems fitting considering Canada's basketball history

1st year basketball was at the olympics (1936) Canada won the silver medal, US won gold (Mexico won bronze).

1st international player to win 2 mvp's from Canada (S. Nash was the 2nd international basketball player to win any mvp's).

Toronto was home to 1 of the 11 original nba teams

then there's James Naismith.

Canada's always been big enough for 2 nba teams, it was the league that wasn't ready.

yeah well yeah they shouldnt do the anthem for every player, but its weird to do the anthems when we have a ton of international players.

Ditch the anthem.

The anthem isn't for the players, it's for the teams. It has nothing to do with where individual players are from. There isn't a single Canadian player on the Raptors, yet they play "O Canada" before Raps games because the TEAM is Canadian.

Also out of respect to the Canadian fans.

realraptor wrote:Also out of respect to the Canadian fans.

Then play the chinese anthem, since there are probably more watchers from there than from canada.

The NBA should come up with it's own anthem, like European soccer does with the Champions League.

Like here, when the teams hit the field, the anthem plays.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0nfFi-_Hb2A

Just come up with a league anthem already.

let's just show the flags and move on.

and 29 of the teams where it is played are in the United States--and one team in Canada.The rest of you can blow off the National Anthem blithely I guess, but as a veteran I resent the hell out of the suggestion that it should be omitted The day the NBA eliminates the anthems before games is the last day the NBA gets any of my money--and the day, I'm willing to bet, every veterans organization in the country will be working to have the NBA boycitted.

That some of you agree with skipping it (many of you, I'm sure, would never think of serving, content to let others die for you...) says some very bad things about the state of patriotism in this country. Nauseating!

If you guys don't want to watch/hear the anthem, hit up the fridge for a beer and come back for tip-off.

I personally love the anthems both the Canadian and the American (obviously the Canadian because I'm in Toronto)

The league is in two countries and therefore should play both before games. Although, I'm pretty sure that (as an example) when the Knicks play the Celtics, they do not play the Canadian anthem.

It's a respectful thing to do, if there wasn't a canadian team it would be different.... but there is....

It's not like they just chose a random country to play an anthem of, Toronto is an equal NBA city.

writerman wrote:and 29 of the teams where it is played are in the United States--and one team in Canada.The rest of you can blow off the National Anthem blithely I guess, but as a veteran I resent the hell out of the suggestion that it should be omitted The day the NBA eliminates the anthems before games is the last day the NBA gets any of my money--and the day, I'm willing to bet, every veterans organization in the country will be working to have the NBA boycitted.

That some of you agree with skipping it (many of you, I'm sure, would never think of serving, content to let others die for you...) says some very bad things about the state of patriotism in this country. Nauseating!

Hey Adolf, how is it going ?