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Come Fan with UsSaturday, June 20, 2026

Fun With The NBA Lockout News And Internet Translations!

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If the NBA Lockout floods into the 2011-'12 season, will Kobe Bryant spend next year playing professional hoops in Turkey? You can read more here, where it looks like the answer is "Yes, if the Turkish team can find a sponsor who'll help pay his salary."

But if nothing else, this story just gets me excited for an entire year of translating NBA stories from overseas news outlets. Here’s the original report from Turkey that broke the latest Kobe news.

And here’s the report, translated:

Black-and-white club, the most important players in the NBA's signature thrown Deron Williams. Another super star Kobe Bryant sitting on the table Besiktas, decided to freeze talks. Bryant's $ 1 million per month until the end of the first interview, while trying to lock-out, transfer to the special difficulty in finding a sponsor Besiktas wait for the 500 thousand-dollar bid. Black-and-whites, this transfer will give up if the sponsor can not be found.

Picture of the signature of the other players in basketball, agreed not been taken yet.

See, offseason rumors usually get old by the second week in July. But now, with the NBA Lockout in full effect and all of our basketball news being translated into jumbled English? This entertainment will continue all year, and we’re just getting started.

Just wait until half the NBA is overseas, and we spend our days trying to understand recaps translated from Turkish and/or Mandarin. Or imagine what happens when an NBA superstar pulls a hamstring and the breaking news translates into “leg injury crutches hospital tests”.

Gonna be a fun season!

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