Basketball still isn't a big deal here. Some of us played it a little in high school, maybe in gym class, but that's about it. Not a big part of the culture.
But, if this was the Stanley Cup finals with Toronto and LA Kings..... oh yeah! There would be some impressive trash talk! Lots of *bleeps* in the interviews (to protect delicate ears)

“Basketball has always been a big part of our lives,” said Nasir, whose parents immigrated from Pakistan.

The sport, said 13-year-old Shayan Rajput, Nasir’s cousin, is “multicultural, it includes everybody.”

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“You only see white people playing hockey,” said Andrew Nguyen, 19, whose parents came to Toronto from Vietnam. “But basketball is more like what the nation is like.”

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He said most people he knew preferred basketball to hockey because “not a lot of people can afford that equipment.” He said, “Basketball is a lot cheaper and easier to get into than hockey.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/world/canada/basketball-toronto-raptors.amp.html