When the man generally considered the greatest basketball player in the world, LeBron James, announced last week that he was returning to his original team, the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association, the shock waves reached very much into Canada.
Three Canadians are of James’s teammates are on the Cleveland roster. How long any one of them will remain is up in the air. Any one–or all three–could be traded as the Cavaliers try to build a championship team around James.
The trio of Canadians are all from Toronto area. Two of them, Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins, were the number-one overall choices in the last two NBA drafts. Another, Tristan Thompson, was drafted fourth overall by Cleveland in 2011.
Now, the three could be looking title shots. Las Vegas has already named Cleveland as the top choice to win the NBA championship this coming season.
For some perspective on James’s return and the chances of the three Canadian players being part of an NBA championship team RCI’s Terry Haig spoke with Barry Clemens.
Mr. Clemens was chosen 19th by the New York Knicks in the 1965 NBA draft and went on to play 11 years, including two in Cleveland, in the NBA. In 2009, he was inducted into the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame. He spoke to Haig by phone from his Cleveland, where he is a financial consultant.
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