You could hardly be blamed for finding the persistent references to Montreal’s burgeoning basketball scene and its history of producing guys Leo Rautins is friends with a little odious on Sunday night. This happens on the broadcast for Canada’s lone NBA team from time-to-time, and it can certainly get exhausting to hear the same rehashed talking points about the growth of the game north of the border that we were hearing in like 2011.
On a night like Sunday, though, with the meaning of this season having been all but sapped, Toronto down its four best players, and a G-League team in NBA clothes rolling through town, it was pretty damn fun to latch onto Montreal’s finest trio as the main point of interest.