The Canadian men’s team headed to the 2024 Paris Olympics will be made up exclusively of NBA players, but there is still a thing or two they can learn from the old guard.
Gerald Kazanowski of Nanaimo was drafted out of the University of Victoria Vikes but never made the NBA. He did play pro all over the world and in two top-six finishes in the Olympics with Canada at Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988.
“It’s remarkable. Guys are dropping what they are doing and flying in from all over the world to do this,” said former Canadian Olympian Howard Kelsey. Three players from the Canadian teams that made Olympic appearances from 1976 in Montreal to 1988 in Seoul have died. Two were from the Island — star guard Billy Robinson of Chemainus who led Canada to the bronze-medal game at Montreal in 1976 and two-time Olympian and former UVic Vikes legend Pasquale.
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