Decades of planning went into this ambitious, implausible Toronto Raptors story line. For decades no one thought that basketball, as a theatrical production, could make headway in Canada against the National Hockey League. And Canada, owing to its geography, had a natural market corner on “athletic” performers who could skate. Accounts of when and how the so-called “National Basketball Association” decided to exploit this weakness remain cloudy. Any Canadian now between the ages of five and 18 is likely to owe a near-permanent allegiance to basketballtainment.

Source: National Post June 14, 2019 17:24 UTC