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Oshae Brissett signs two-year deal in Israel
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv has officially announced the signing of Canadian former NBA forward Oshae Brissett. The 27-year-old Brissett signed a two-year deal with Maccabi, following a professional career spent entirely in the NBA and the G League.
Despite averaging just 6.8 points and 4.0 rebounds as a senior, Reid was selected by the Oklahoma Thunder in the second round of the 2010 NBA Draft. He would go on to play nearly a decade of professional basketball internationally, in countries such as France, Canada, Puerto Rico and Japan.
Josh Lewenberg: Masai Ujiri's goodbye: "Toronto, Canada, I love you. The country that welcomed me. The city that became home. This bond we share will last forever... Now a new chapter begins but your love will always be with me... You will win again in Toronto."
Sam Presti: We have people from Canada, Serbia, the West Coast, the East Coast, middle America, France, Australia, that all come together for a collective goal. There's compassion on the team. There's a cowboy toughness, a self-reliance that comes from being homegrown, and an essential sense of goodness. If that sounds familiar, that's because those are the same things that have been in Oklahoma for generations. I think the thing to recognize is that the team is really just a reflection of the state. I think the team itself resonates with the people here because it really is them looking at what makes living here special and unique.
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Justin Trudeau: Masai my friend, thank you for your inspiring leadership and dedication to the Raptors. No one will forget that incredible 2019 championship run and your passion for the game. You’ve shown not only our youth in Canada but around the world and in Africa through Giants of Africa, the power of sport and education. Looking forward to seeing what you do next!
Keerthika Uthayakumar: Will Riley (from Kitchener, ON) is the 22nd Canadian to be drafted in the first round of the NBA draft since 2011. He's the sixth Canadian taken in the first round over the last four drafts, joining Sharpe & Mathurin in 2022, Prosper in 2023 and Edey & George in 2024.
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“As a Canadian, representing my country is something I definitely want to do in the future,” Olivier-Maxence Prosper said Tuesday at the Mavs Academy Hoop Camp presented by Chick-fil-A. “I see the ’28 Olympics as a goal of mine, for sure.” However, the Montreal native who played on Canada’s Under-19 national team in 2021 knows there are a few intermediate steps he must complete before he can address that major goal. “We’re in 2025, so we got three years until then (the Olympics),” he said. “Every year is building. By that time, I’ll be, what, five years into the league? Then it’ll be our time to take that spot.”
Danny Green on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 'He reminds me of Kobe'
Which isn’t to say Green doesn’t also appreciate Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Canadian who won league MVP this year. “I love the fact that he still, he reminds me of Kobe (Bryant). He still does a lot in the mid-range and a lot of footwork and fundamentals,” Green said. “A lot of people are not happy or disappointed with how many threes are being taken and that we don’t have traditional back-to-the-basket games anymore, post-ups and go with big men, and have mid-range games. And it was kind of being pushed out of the game and becoming obsolete. “So the fact that (Gilgeous-Alexander and others), they mix up their game and they make sure that they continue to not only improve, but show how important it is to be able to score on all levels, to be able to defend and to do all the other little things that matter, outside of shooting the ball from the three-point line.”
Pacers-Knicks ranks as the most-watched ECF since 2014 that did not go seven games (seven series). The three series over that span to go seven — Cavaliers-Celtics in 2018, Celtics-Heat in 2022 and Heat-Celtics in 2023 — averaged 8.57, 6.98 and 7.42 million respectively. Viewership outpaced the five-game Thunder-Timberwolves Western Conference Finals (5.59M) by 25%, the largest gap between conference finals since 2019, when the West outpaced the East series (which included Toronto, a Canadian market that does not count toward U.S. television ratings) by 34%.
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