On Monday night, the Denver Nuggets hoisted the NBA championship trophy. Jamal Murray, the right-hand man for Nikola Jokic, took his turn pushing the precious prize above his head.
Another joyous moment for him and his home country, just a year after fellow Canadian Andrew Wiggins had lifted the hardware.
It was enough to make Dwight Powell feel like a proud papa, even if he’s not really old enough to be labeled a patriarch of basketball in his native Canada.
The Canadians have come a long, long way since the last generation, which was pretty much Steve Nash and nobody else when it came to NBA talent coming from the Great White North.