Best and Keane found good coaching and good competition playing for Ryerson and Carleton.
They are trailblazers, examples of the growth of Canadian university basketball, a couple of USports kids who are now professionals because they got good coaching and good competition in Canada.
Aaron Best, one of the best players to ever come out of Ryerson, and Kaza Keane, who found a path to a career at wildly successful Carleton, will proudly suit up Sunday as members of the Raptors 905 G League team, the first products of the Canadian university system to be regulars with the Mississauga-based minor-league team.