You’ve probably heard that basketball was invented by a Canadian a million times—we like to brag about it almost as much as we brag about Drake and The Weeknd. There was a Heritage Minute about it and everything. But even the most patriotic Canadian basketball fan might not be aware that the NBA’s first game was played right here in Toronto on November 1, 1946, when the Toronto Huskies and New York Knicks squared off at Maple Leaf Gardens. (Spoiler alert: Toronto lost 68-66, and the Huskies disbanded after that inaugural season.)