The Viral Story Of Toronto Raptors’ Superfan Nav Bhatia

The life-affirming story of Basketball superfan Nav Bhatia who has crossed all types of odds so as to rise at top and help various immigrant families which is now online and winning hearts.

His famous association with the basketball team of Toronto Raptors and the journey of how he attended every single basketball game since the year 1995 is making people excited. Sometimes it is noticed that a superfan of a team can also unite a community. Canadian journalist named as Muhammad Lila had come up to Twitter so as to share the amazing story of a Toronto Raptors basketball team’s superfan, in the tweet the journalist wrote about the early struggles faced by the superfan, further his way to success and how he has helped the others fans like him to mingle with the team. The tweet done by Muhammad Lila has since then gone viral and he has also highlighted the way rapper Drake is till now the team’s best fan known, but this Sikh Guy named Nav Bhatia is the most dedicated one. Lila tweeted about the 67-year-old Bhatia was that he is “the biggest fan” of the Rapper’s team and that he had also arrived in Canada in the 1980s. He said that Mr. Bhatia had never missed a single game of the Rapper’s team since 1995. “As a brown turbaned guy with an accent he couldn’t get a job as an engineer, so he wound up working as a car salesman at dealership in a rough part of town,”. The journalist thereafter said that how he used his charm and honesty and thus Bhatia rose to be the top fan for Rappers. Mr. Bhatia has also brought the dealership in which he had once worked as an employee! “In any other city (looking at you, MIL), a guy like Nav might stand out. But not in Toronto. We’re a place where immigration works. Multiculturalism works. Ask anyone who’s been to a Rappers game and they have told you it’s the most diverse place around world”.

By: Anuja Arora

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