Kawhi Leonard didn't spark Canada's love of basketball, he completed it
by Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times
Dec 11, 2019
4 minutes
TORONTO - As he became known as one of Canada's best teenage basketball players, Javonte Brown-Ferguson had a decision to make.
Prep schools in the United States were wooing the 6-foot-11, 230-pound center. It was an attractive opportunity. Many top Canadian recruits had used the same pipeline to reach the NBA.
Instead, he stayed at Thornlea School, 18 miles from downtown Toronto, driven by a belief that would have been considered radical in the not-too-distant past.
"I had a lot of options," Brown-Ferguson said, "but I really thought Canada would get me the best prepared."
Where Canadian basketball players used to operate in no-man's
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