Okay, it's on. USA vs Canada tonight folks. We invented basketball. We can't have another country hoisting our trophy. The South united. GO CAVS. 
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Canada invented basketball
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Wrong again Weeder. Naismith moved from Canada to the US, taking a job at the YMCA in Springfield, Mass. There he was ordered to come up with a game to keep the kids entertained by YMCA director Dr Gulick. It was here in the mighty USA that he came up with what later would be called basketball. Naismith also became a US citizen, so basketball was definitely created in the US, it's creator was American under the direction of another American. Naismith went on to Kansas where he coached Phog Allen and the rest is history. He just happened to be born in Canada. Your assertion is like saying Steve Nash isn't Canadian since he was born in Africa.
Plus don't get it twisted. All Canadians know that they haven't really made it until they become Americans. They don't reach their creative peak until they move 'down south'
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Thats a different historical timeline from what ive learned.
Thought he was A Canadian citizen teaching at McGill when he developed the rules.
Game is still dominated by Americans and loved by American fans. No need to take credit away from the rightful country of origin.Comment -
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. He invented it at the YMCA in Springfield not at McGill. Dr Gulick gave him 14 days to come up with a game for the kids to play. Why do you think the YMCA's were the early adopters of basketball. YMCA leagues spread basketball all over the US (and Canada). The game and the rules were created in the US by Naismith although this has been disputed by a guy named Lambert Will.
You Canucks need to stop spreading lies. Basketball is USA's sport. Always has been, always will be.Comment -
that is correct.. a grad of McGill University in Montreal.. where my father taught
(which is why we were there)
great school.. and basketball ball was a helluva'n idea
created it to keep kids occupied indoors in the winter at a YMCA, in Mass.
where hockey rinks were not available
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I like mcfly but Trump will win the presidency because of voters like mcfly.Comment -
So a guy dislikes Canada so it automatically makes him a trump supporter...Jesus fukking Christ you can't make up this shit. Keep all that politic bulshit out of PT and go play with coochy and shruter in their idiotic thread.Comment -
Damn it. This is why Trump needs to be president. Have so many ignorant americans that they need a real ignorant american to lead them and make them great again.Comment -
Naismith got the hell out of Canada as soon as he could. He couldn't do a damn thing stuck in that shit hole until he left. He hit the high road to the US and created one of the best sports in the history of the world. His mind wasn't right until he left that place. and you wonder why Canadians don't amount to nothing until they get out of the country.Comment -
Name me one successful Canadian that didn't have to leave that place to get known.
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Some of you guys...
If you need to constantly assert that you live in a great place...Comment -
Booyer's right. This has nothing to do with the thread.
Bottom line here is, the Raps arent likely to win a fukkin game.
Those who got their money in good on a Cavs sweep prop are laughing.
Its paying barely even money right now.
We dont have an answer for Lebron and Valenchunisiss wasnt gonna change that. I said earlier that i though it was possible for the Thunder to be favourite after winning game one & i compared that to the raps stealing game one and being favoured.
I was dead wrong. The Raps will not be favoured to win this series at any point, during this series and they will not be favoured in any particular game.
Cavs -5.5 minimum.
Even at the ACC
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USA... We own this shit. 17 Olympic appearances, 14 Gold Medals, 2 bronze and 1 bullshit Silver medal that we never ever stayed around to pick up.
Tonight it's USA vs Canada. You know the drill. You know the results...
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We're all Americans, guys.Comment -
How the fukk is this series about Canada vs the USA?? Just because it's Canada's only team?? WTF
Cleveland is and always will be the sh*t hole of the USA, North America, Planet Earth, etc.Comment -
Has Canadia ever had a river fire???Comment -
You obviously have never been to Cleveland. Quit reading the news...
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The series is just changed and it favors TorontoComment
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