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Old 05-13-2010, 12:37 PM   #11
brabender
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Hi all, and thanks for your welcome; yes, I'm aware of the funny meaning of my handle en English, but as you may have guessed, I'm a big basketball fan, and old enough to have seen Wayne playing with Real Madrid and with the Spanish team; in fact, he was my youth idol, and that's why I picked that name as my alias when I posted in Spanish forums, and when I had to choose a new one for US forums, I decided to stick with it. Glad to see I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten old Wayne



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Originally Posted by Logseman View Post
Brabender, aside of a funny name (funnier in Spanish because of how we pronounce it) was actually somebody else, concretely Wayne Brabender, the first American basketball player who played with Spain. He was good enough to mark an era in Spanish European basketball and play 190 times for Spain, though he never was chosen to play in the NBA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Brabender
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