Canadian basketball has got to get rid of Leo Rautins, straight up to win anything!
“Samuel Dalembert hasn’t closed the door on playing basketball for Canada again but says he won’t don a Canadian jersey so long as Leo Rautins is coaching.
The 6-foot-11 centre was in Toronto yesterday as his Philadelphia 76ers beat the Raptors in an NBA pre-season game, just three months removed from his falling out with Rautins at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens.
“I think it would be very immature to just let one person ruin the great things that we have here,” Dalembert said.
But asked if he would consider playing for Rautins, Canada’s head coach, Dalembert said, “No. If you have one slap, you never know when you’re going to get another slap.”
Rautins dropped Dalembert from the team after he picked up just two points on 1-of-8 shooting and two rebounds in a loss to Slovenia – mere hours before Canada’s game against South Korea. ”
