Investment in national basketball centre provides ‘home’ for future generations

TORONTO — Humber Polytechnic and Canada Basketball have a relationship that stretches back decades. When Canada Basketball vice president and executive director Rowan Barrett first tried out for the national team, he took the bus to the school’s north campus. His son, Toronto Raptors forward and senior men’s team star RJ Barrett, played his first game as an age-group national team player at Humber and trained for his first international competition on the same floor his father had played on decades earlier. “The first time I saw Shai Gilgeous-Alexander play was at that hoop, he was a skinny 15-year-old, and…