"Tristan Thompson has never seen the game that caused him to interrupt his summer vacation to fly halfway around the world to help anchor a last-ditch effort to qualify for the Rio Olympics by the Canadian men's basketball team.

Not in video format, anyway.

While his friends and teammates were in Mexico City last September fighting for Canada's first Olympic berth since 2000 and just the second since 1988, Thompson was back home in the midst of a difficult contract negotiation with the Cleveland Cavaliers. It eventually kept him out of training camp for three weeks before he signed a five-year deal for $82-million, kicking off a dream season that culminated with an NBA title just two weeks ago."

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