http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoXmC0pieA

Never heard of a Turkish Airlines ad though

Let’s just hope Haddadi can make a name for himself in the NBA, whether it be with Memphis or anyone else — i for one was blown away with his play in the FIBA Worlds and Beijing Olympics.

Thanks for reading and thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Os.

Here’s a forum post saying the same thing I say, linking to an arabic (persian ?) source

http://forums.interbasket.net/showpost.php?p=321196&postcount=3

Here’s a post using the same bad quote, but the titel is more informative “I’m a star but on the bench”

http://www.iransportspress.com/news/48/ARTICLE/9096/2009-08-25.html

Cheers,

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?pr=s&query=memphis%20&NewsID=936058

This is where i grabbed the quote from … if the news agency mistranslates their own story, there’s nothing much i can do about it because i don’t know anybody who reads Persian. I didn’t find the English grammar very outrageously incorrect; “star of the team” sounds a *little* funny but also is a common mistake for second-language speakers of English. (I taught ESL for a long time.)

I haven’t found any stories saying Haddadi was misquoted, but i’ll search for more. Could you provide me with a link to something…?

Thanks for reading and thanks especially for commenting!

Cheers,
Os.

Stated Haddadi emphatically to Iranian source Mehr News: “I want to play regularly for the Grizzlies; nevertheless, I will have to change my team now since I am a star of the team but sitting on the bench.”

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This statement has been repeatedly reported as misquoted, and is probably stemming from a disatrous automatic translation. When you see grammr like this you should double check.

I read what Haddadi meant was, in response of the question metnioning that he was an nba star, that he was more a bench star in the nba. Now this rings a lot more true, sound, and funny, doesn’t it?

Anyway this news is already so old. It has been misreported in the NBA sites, and I was expecting a better job of ballineurope, because this has happened so often before to european players.