Montrealer and NBA champion Luguentz Dort will come to Montreal next week, and his stay will include a championship parade in his former neighborhood.
Earlier this summer, Oklahoma City Thunder de Dort defeated the Indiana Pacers in a series of seven games to claim the Larry O’Brien trophy.
Next Wednesday, on August 20, Dort is expected to participate in a ceremony at 4 pm in the City Council with the mayor of Montreal, Valérie proposed, to celebrate his achievements, as well as his commitment to the youth of the city.
He will sign the city registrar, commonly known in French as the Livre d’Or. According to a Dort spokesman, that ceremony will bring together about 200 people from the city’s sports community.
The next day, Dort will participate in a parade in Montreal-Nord, the municipality where it grew.
“I feel that they deserve that because they have been supporting me throughout the season,” CBC told Daybreak, in an interview last month.
In the final, Dort faced his friend Bennedict Mathurin, who is also from Montreal-Nord.
His final confrontation of the NBA was an important source of pride: for Canadians, Quebequeros, Montrealers and people in their home.
The area also houses a large number of HaitiansMontrealers. Both Dort and Mathurine They are of Haitian ancestry.
The news communications on the event next week did not specify the exact location of the parade.
The Dort championship was a crowned achievement on a trip that included being unraveled on Draft night in 2019.
“It is always a motivation every time I face a team that had the opportunity to recruit me. But at the same time, it gave me a player and helped me, you know, get to where I am today.”
After the parade, the Montrealer will celebrate the fifth edition of its basketball camp, Camp Elite.
It is a two -day event, which will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, which presents dozens of basketball players in the province.
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