To Commissioner Silver: When you handed the championship trophy to the Toronto Raptors, you proclaimed that basketball had come full circle. It was invented by Canadian James Naismith, the first NBA game was played in Toronto, and now, 24 years later since Canada got the Raptors and Grizzlies, Canada has reached the top of the basketball world. What better time than now, exactly 18 years since you left, to get back together?

I know what you’re thinking. “Can Vancouver sustain a basketball team?” It’s a reasonable concern, after last time. But look at the passion we had for the Raptors. We identified as the basketball outsiders, the “other” team all the way up in Canada. It was us against the world, and we embraced that. Imagine, for a moment, if Vancouver got a team. We’d be “that other team in Canada.” It would be Vancouver against the world, and the rest of Canada, and we’ll embrace that, too.