Thunder’s Lu Dort to have NBA title parade in Montreal next week
Oklahoma City Thunder Guard Luguentz Dort, Center, has the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy while he celebrates his team after they have won the NBA Basketball Championship with a game 7 win against the Indiana Pacers.Nate Billings/The Associated Press
The Larry O’Brien -Trophy will be in Montreal next week.
Lu Dort, who won an NBA championship in June with the Oklahoma City Thunder alongside colleague Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, gets a two-day celebration in his hometown.
On August 20, Dort accepts a special invitation from Mayor Valérie Plante from Montreal to the town hall. About 200 members of the sports community will be there to recognize his championship gain and his dedication to young people in Montreal.
The next day there will be a return home in Montreal-Nord, the town where he grew up.
“This summer is a dream come true – winning the championship and having the opportunity to come back home, with the trophy, to celebrate here in Montréal,” Dort said in a release. “I am just grateful to share this with the people who supported me from the first day.”
The Thunder won the NBA title in seven games about the Indiana Pacers for only the second championship in the franchise history.
The Seattle Supersonics won the NBA title in 1979; The team was moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. There is nothing in the trusses in Oklahoma City to commemorate that title.
The 26-year-old Dort, in his sixth season with the Thunder, has been a defensive cornerstone and earned his first NBA All-Defensive First Team this last season. Oklahoma City had the best record in the regular season in the NBA on 68-14.
The Thunder was also the youngest team that won a title in almost half a century.
Gilgeous-Alexander, who was named Finals MVP after winning regular MVP and was the scoring champion, had a parade in Hamilton on August 7. He got the key to the city and was honored at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ match against the BC Lions that night.
Dort also organizes the fifth edition of Camp Élite of 22-23 August, which brings 50 from Québec’s best young male basketball players for two days of training, mentorship and motivation.
