76ers center Samuel Dalembert wants no ill will from Canadian fans over this Olympic flap with the national team this summer.

Dalembert was dropped from Canada's national team in the midst of an Olympic qualifying tournament last summer.

"Hopefully, some people understood what happened," Dalembert said. "It wasn't anything on my side, [that] I didn't want to play for Canada or anything like that. I made it clear the summer before that I wanted to play there. It's basically like a second, adoptive home. I feel what happened kind of got out of proportion. I don't know the reason why; there was nothing leading to the situation, where you knew it was going to happen. There was nothing like that."

Via Philadelphia Daily News

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