Bennedict Mathurin, Olivier-Maxence Prosper and Tre-Vaughn Minott at the NBA Academy in Latin America had to make early exits from Mexico
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00:00 Hey everyone, Aaron Rose here from Sports Illustrated.
00:03 Today marks five weeks since the NBA shutdown on Wednesday, March 11th.
00:06 It's been a strange period for everyone, but for Benedict Mathurin, Olivier Maxence-Prosper
00:12 and Trayvon Minot, the days following the shutdown were a bit of a blur.
00:16 The three Canadians were 4,000 kilometers from home in Mexico City, training at the
00:21 NBA Academy in Latin America when Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus.
00:25 "Everything was good and then one day it just blew up and like cases rose up and like
00:33 it just felt it was better that everybody went home."
00:36 Prosper was told that Saturday morning that he needed to go home, and that night he was
00:40 on the red-eye back to Montreal.
00:42 "They told me you're getting on the, you're hopping on the flight back home tonight and
00:46 I was like, wait what?"
00:48 Mathurin and Minot had a little bit more time, but that just made the goodbyes a little bit
00:51 more difficult.
00:52 "I wasn't really able to say goodbye as I wanted to my teammates.
00:58 Like I remember the last day we went to Rebel Wings and you know we just came back and it
01:05 was like it was a life that we would have been together for a long time, you know, or
01:11 maybe for a long time."
01:13 The three boys are back home in Montreal now, trying to stay safe and working out as best
01:17 they can.
01:18 They're just lucky to be back home.
01:20 "We came in at the right time because we really came in right before things started to get
01:25 worse and right before our prime minister said, you know what, we're shutting down airports,
01:29 we're shutting down this and that.
01:31 So we really came in clutch."
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