Not too surprising on French Muslim youths, according to this reader:
Your reference to the Spurs shirts caught my eye … Don’t know if you know but the Spurs have a very culturally diverse team (as much of the NBA is becoming these days – in Europe they teach ’em from an early age the right way to play) and one of their young stars is Tony Parker who was born in Belgium and raised in France … probably the reason those kids chose Spurs t-shirts. That and the fact he scored Eva Longoria.
For some reason, all this background had eluded me until now.