The chance that basketball history could have been made Saturday night was pointed out to Cory Joseph in a telephone conversation this week, and you could almost hear the veteran Canadian NBAer smile proudly.
“Unbelievable,” the Pickering native said. “That’s crazy, man.”
The vagaries of NBA rotations and injuries delayed the potential for a moment unlike any other in the history of the sport: There could have been six Canadian players — Khem Birch, Dalano Banton and Chris Boucher of the Raptors; Kelly Olynyk, Trey Lyles and Joseph of the Pistons — on the court at the same time at Scotiabank Arena on Saturday night.