"It was a call Jay Triano wasn't sure he was going to make and one Levon Kendall couldn't wait to receive.

It was about repatriating a valued member of Canada's senior men's basketball team, a long-serving veteran who had gone through an unspeakable family horror, a call that would serve to bolster the country's chances at making the Rio Olympics while providing career closure to a young man who wanted more than anything to go out on his own terms.

And because national team coach Triano reached out to Kendall about a month ago, everyone is getting precisely want he wants and needs."

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