There is a new Mecca for New York Knicks basketball, and it is located in Northeastern Europe, on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The sovereign nation of Latvia exploded into our collective consciousness when the Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis in the draft. To love Kristaps is to love the land that gave us Kristaps.
But what do we know of the country itself? Our lack of knowledge on the Porzingis motherland is appalling. We need to go back to school. And who better to drop some Latvian knowledge on us than Oju0101rs u0112riks Kalniu0146š, member of the Latvian parliament and chairman of the country's Foreign Affairs Committee.