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Canadian Sports culture: the dilemma of four-on-four basketball

By: Grant Simms, SFU Student One of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered was playing pick-up basketball in Vancouver for the first time. I’d previously been to Phoenix, where the pick-up culture is superb and there are a ton of talented players to be found on any given night at any LA Fitness location. So, when I walked into the YMCA in Vancouver and saw that, instead of playing full court basketball, everyone was playing half court four-on-four, it blew my mind — and not in a good way. I’d never seen pick-up basketball played in that format before. Never…

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