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Sunday, July 02, 2006

Parc Des Veterans - Montreal, Canada

The Canadian Frenchies doing their thing[Photo Gallery: 41 photo's of 3 on 3 at Parc Des Veterans - Montreal]

Montreal - the beautiful french speaking city of the province of Quebec (Eastern Canada). Here, the ballers have to compete with ice hockey as the national sport and scores are kept in francais which makes it hard to keep track (Une, deux, trois...).

The local Quebecore's as they're known exude a certain sense of disdain for the English language & as such, gave me a bit of a hard time on the court.

One of the black guys was trying to take advantage of the tourist by hitting, hacking, elbowing & holding me from behind every time I got the ball - he reminded me of Ray Gordon. After much experience watching prison drama on tv, it's my understanding that you have to let a mutha know who's boss, so on the next play when I got the ball in the post, I laid him out with a solid elbow to the head.

When he got up, he remonstrated with an open hand slap to my face and wanted to fight.

I did my crazy eyes raymond expression and yelled out that I didn't want to kill anybody while I was in canada while jumping around like Ultimate Warrior.

They must have been watching crocodile dundee or something because he backed down and play continued.

Unfortunately, I feel like I have now experienced the worst of overseas streetball - stopping a game in order to start a fight.

Parc Des Veterans Streetball Information:
Court Location: "Parc Des Veterans" - Corner of Papinuau & Rue La Fontaine (just north of Papineau train station), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Courts: 1
Runs: 3 on 3 half-court
Best Time for Runs: 5-8pm

posted by flake at 8:50 PM  

5 Comments:

  • I know it was probably slightly unnerving, but you made it sound hilarious, especially with your crazy eyes raymond reference. Of all the places you've been, Quebec is the last place I would have expected something like that.

    By The_ Franch, at 9:58 PM  

  • yeah, but I guess I probably figured at the time that there was less chance of someone popping a cap in my arse outside of the US. I also don't subscribe to 'professional fouls' in basketball...maybe it's wishful thinking, but I figure you should at least try to play legal D.

    By Jase, at 5:19 PM  

  • overseas?

    By Anonymous, at 6:25 PM  

  • Hey whats up man. Check out www.streetball.ca, and send an email to keep in touch and help promote streetball around canada. Peace.

    By Streetball.Ca, at 1:06 AM  

  • yo man if ur ever in montreal again
    you should check out campbell park
    its in little burgandy

    its a lot better when better competition

    By Magic Brownie, at 10:45 AM  

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