Rick Carlisle was born and raised in Ogdensburg, a small city in upstate New York state that’s along the St. Lawrence, and he’s had a knowledge of and affinity for Canada his whole life.
It wasn’t a huge surprise, then, when the Indiana Pacers head coach opened his chat with media before Sunday’s game against the Raptors at Scotiabank Arena with an unsolicited nod to a big sports issue Canadians are paying close attention to.
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