Pro Athletes Love Toronto (Really)

A decade ago, "American pro athletes used to think of Toronto as a backwater." Today, the city of Toronto has become a playground for international ballers of the highest order, prompting the Wall-Street Journal to explain Why Pro Athletes Love Toronto. And really, why do pro athletes love anything?

Athletes get a warm welcome at the city's relatively libertine gentlemen's clubs which ... tend to "clear out the champagne room" for visiting athletes.

That gets the award for best sentence of the article. Here's my favorite paragraph:

Knicks rookie Toney Douglas, who was descending the hotel elevator in a sparkling diamond necklace and a puffy vest, said he never goes out before games and isn't a fan of cold weather, but had heard from friends that Toronto, "party-wise," was one city worth making an exception for. "It's something different – it's another country," he said.

Can someone make sure that quote makes it into next year's NBA media guide?

Essentially he said this: I usually don't go out before games, but party-wise, I had to make an exception. Toronto's different. You heard about the gentleman's clubs out here?