VANCOUVER, Canada — As some of the best basketball players in the world battle each other for international supremacy in Rio, another rising NBA star was spotted in a former Olympic venue half way around the world.
Zach LaVine, the high-flying guard for the Timberwolves, stood on one of the 10 full-sized courts inside the gargantuan Richmond Olympic Oval—the former home of speed skating during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
In town for his camp with DRIVE Basketball, the Bothell, Wash. (a three-hour drive south from Vancouver) native nonchalantly buried three-pointer after three-pointer before the start of the camp.