The Life: Not that you would know this, but I'm actually of Haitian descent, so when I read up on you and realized that you had actually gone to Haiti after the earthquake last year and decided to help out and whatnot I was humbled and yet intrigued. We're hoping that it'll be like a real game, but still for fun. It's our first time trying to do a charity game in Montreal and the idea behind this one is to get some musicians and friends and to put together a team to play against another team that would be half Concordia and half McGill players. Are you excited for that one?īutler: Yes. The Life: Now you have the event coming up this Saturday in Montreal. But we did pretty good, because I was their draft pick and there were a lot of actual basketball players there so I thought that we played pretty good. So then he was pretty pissed and so we played his team in the finals and he just actually played for five minutes and they were up like 20-2 and just destroyed us. Matt Bonner was doing a charity game and we did pretty good, we made it to the finals and then I challenged Bonner in the 3-point competition and I beat him. How did that go?īutler: It was pretty fun. The Life: Last week you were in Toronto, where you held a charity basketball event. I mean, just a lot of the teams who have great point guards, it's such a great time in the league for point guards right now. I'm not really a favorites type of guy but definitely in our house my wife, Regine, loves watching Steve play and Rondo. The Life: If I were to ask you who your favorite player is, would it be Steve Nash currently or is there somebody else?īutler: Oh, I don't know. We kind of watched a lot of basketball in our house, starting in the mid 2000s. It's probably the year that Golden State beat the Mavs in the first round that kind of big upset really piqued my interest in the NBA again and then my wife kind of got into Steve Nash and we followed those Celtics teams for those years. The Life: Do you follow basketball as religiously today as you did back then?īutler: I really stopped following it for a long time. But, yeah, with Hakeem, I've kind of come to appreciate later how lucky I was to get to see him play in his prime. I mean Hakeem is kind of like the guy I watched, I mean even before that, I'd always be listening to the games headphones after I was supposed to be asleep and everything. The Life: Have you always been a Hakeem Olajuwon fan, even going into today?īutler: Definitely. The Life: Did you have a favorite team growing up?īutler: I grew up in Houston, so when the Houston Rockets won the championships with Hakeem in like '93-94 and then '94-95, those were kind of like my heyday. Is that a fair assumption?īutler: I'm mostly a basketball man, but yeah. The Life: Obviously you're a big sports fan. In anticipation of the event in the band's hometown, The Life spoke with Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler earlier this week about basketball, charity and the "Pop vs. The event will benefit DJ Sports Club, a non-profit organization in Montreal that offers sports programs to kids between 7 and 17. The event, which is part of the POP Montreal International Music Festival, will include Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Will Butler, San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner and musicians from Vampire Weekend. Jocks" charity basketball game at the McGill University Sports Centre in Montreal. On Saturday night, members of Grammy Award-winning band Arcade Fire will take part in a "POP vs. NBA, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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