NBA Draft night makes strong statement – the Canadians are coming!

The NBA Champions and 2019 NBA Draft reflect a new era where basketball may have usurped hockey and the NHL as the most popular sport in Canada.

Pre Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies era if you grew up in Canada odds are your Saturday nights were spent in front of a TV watching Hockey Night in Canada. It’s what most boys and more recently young females played growing up.

I was a bit of a rebel so my time was spent playing soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis and running or other track events. I even played football with my male friends and (sorry about that shoulder Stephen S, it’s not how hard you hit – but where you tackle I guess!). It’s not that I was averse to hockey I just…