Full credit to TWolves. Developed a style of play over the regular season they believed would be successful when games mattered most and executed against the best 5-man unit the NBA has. They can absolutely win a title, as can Dallas and Boston. Great few weeks coming up.

Congrats to Canada Basketball. Will be an exciting summer of hoops!

Heading to Paris, at last 🇨🇦

Kacie Bosch, Paige Crozon, Katherine Plouffe and Michelle Plouffe have made history — they’ll be the first Canadian 3x3 basketball team to compete in the Olympic Games

#3x3OQT | #CB3x3

Think I just fractured an orbital bone because I rolled my eyes so hard

TWolves have defended with depth all season and when it matters most they’ve brought it big time. What a 4th Q.

Best season by a Canadian ever? I don’t say this lightly …

SGA concludes an incredible individual season with 36&8 (no turnovers) in must-win game for Thunder. OKC was intentionally passive at trade deadline because they wanted to see what their team needed. Pretty clearly it’s some quality size. OKC has to maximize Shai’s prime. End of.

Illegal screen by Dort maybe?

In case you missed Amit Mann and myself on Sportsnet 590 The FAN … we talked ALL things hoops:

- OKC’s shooting struggles and changing their identity
- Give Pascal Siakam the ball
- Thibs to blame?
+ Ryan Hollins joined us to talk Game 7’s + Wolves/Nuggets

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I was like 'oh he's playing with some little ones at camp, that's nice...'

Those are damn teenagers. Wemby man 😭

Very nice column from Bruce Arthur remembering ‘Dutchy’ … RIP.

What a great heavenly birthday present today for Sekou Smith from his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan #SekouStrong

Really good story by ⁦Anthony Slater⁩ — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: Inside the evolving leadership style of one of the NBA’s next-up stars

via The Athletic nytimes.com/athletic/54612…

TSN ICYMI

Very sad. Dutchy was an institution whose love for his craft shone through with every show. My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

The extended Australian Boomers squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been cut to 17, ahead of camp in late June.

Xavier Cooks
Jock Landale
Dyson Daniels
Will Magnay
Matthew Dellavedova
Jack McVeigh
Danté Exum
Patty Mills
Josh Giddey
Duop Reath
Chris Goulding
Matisse Thybulle

On one hand, good for Vince! On another, there’s a good discussion to be had about exactly how … unusual … VC’s HOF career really was:

Hand-crafted for Tommy Beer —

For small guards, the only playoff comps for Brunson I think of are Isiah Thomas & Allen Iverson. So far in Knicks 12 games, Brunson has 7 'gamescores' of 24 or more. Iverson had 7 in 6ers Finals run in '01 (23 games). Most Thomas had was 4 (Finals run in '88), per Basketball Reference

🇨🇦🏀SGA delivered a legendary game when the Thunder needed it most on Monday -- ''the most meaningful game of my career' -- and might need another to get past the Mavericks tonight: sportsnet.ca/nba/article/ca…