The three letters every Canadian should memorize and cherish - SGA via simmonssteve
Thursday night was the one visit the Oklahoma City Thunder make to Toronto this season. That’s one chance to see Gilgeous-Alexander playing close to home. On Tuesday night, it was Jamal Murray from Kitchener getting nice applause from fans at Scotiabank Arena. On Thursday, it was the former roommates, Lu Dort of Montreal and Gilgeous-Alexander being appreciated, at least until the game against the Raptors began.
That would be the kind of Olympic team this country would fall in love with, the way we fall in love with so many Olympic teams. Giannis would play for Greece. Tatum and Damian Lillard would play for the U.S., SGA, as he’s now known around the league, would be the Canadian star. That makes this year’s vote worth about $35 million for Gilgeous-Alexander. And you know what he does with his summers? He doesn’t vacation on the Riviera, he comes home to Hamilton, to see his folks, to be with family. Because that’s who he is. Even when he left his hometown to go prep school in the U.S., he went to Hamilton Heights in Chatanooga, Tenn. Then one year at Kentucky.
The three greatest single scoring seasons by a Raptors player moves from Vince Carter to DeMar DeRozan to Kawhi Leonard. That’s 27.6 points a game to 27.3 to Kawhi’s 26.6 in his only season here. SGA is at 31.1. There are 12 games to go in his season. He’s averaged 32.7 points a night in his past 12 games as the Thunder fights for playoff and play-in-game positioning. The rather slight 6-foot-6 guard is not exactly slowing down.
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