The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Basketball Ambitions: A Tale of Vancouver and the NBA

This spring, the whole of Latvia sympathized with the Vancouver hockey team, which flirted with the possibility of fighting for the Lord Stanley Cup with two Latvians in the lineup. Although it was not destined this time, Canada and hockey – it sounds right, it must be! Canada and basketball? This connection has also strengthened in recent years, but it was not the case 30 years ago. And at the moment when Vancouver decided to step into the shoes of the NBA – the strings got tangled and the sole came off…

In the season in which the Latvian star Kristaps Porziņgis became the champion of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the league’s anti-record also fell – the Detroit “Pistons” lost 28 games in a row. The team has been in the basement of the league for several years, which brings to mind the story of the worst NBA franchise of all time. A unit from the picturesque city of Vancouver, or the reason why only one, not two, clubs from Canada stayed in the league…

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