Preseason Game 7 Maccabi Haifa B.C at Raptors

This is a little later today than I would have liked, but since i'm in Ottawa and certain terrible events transpired today, we'll have to live with it. It's times like these that we need these happy distractions so people can come together and celebrate the freedom we hold so dear.

Maccabi Haifa B.C are an Israeli Basketball Club who play in the Israeli Superleague. This passed season they made it all the way to the finals only to lose to Maccabi Tel Aviv. The PreSeason is chalk full of games like this. Either played in a foreign country to boost international interest in the NBA or against a team from a foreign country to boost interest in international play. This preseason Haifa BC have already played against the Washington Wizards, Portland Trailblazers and Sacramento Kings. They have lost all 3 games.

• Tonight could mark the preseason debut of Lucas "Bebe" Nogueira who has been sidelined with a groin injury. Looks like he's been activated!
• Maccabi Haifa B.C. have 5 players of US nationality playing on their team
• After tonight's game there is one more preseason match up on Friday against The Knicks which will be played in Montreal. Then it's off to the regular season!

Silverchair are one of those bands that comes to mind when someone mentions 90's grunge rock. Sure they were quickly signed to be the next Nirvana, even their line-up and style of dress mimicked Kurt Cobain and co. They were, thankfully, a great band though and their debut album Frogstomp still ranks high on my favourites from that decade. 

From that album here is "Israel's Son" which was the third single released behind "Tomorrow" and "Pure Massacre". Before Silverchair  took a hiatus in 2003 "Israel's Son" was the only song from Frogstomp that the band still performed live.

2 more games to go!