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0:00It's April 7th. Welcome to Vancouver News Today, powered by AI, I'm Corey with the story. Adam Sandler popped up at a Vancouver YMCA for a pickup basketball game, turning heads and hoop dreams into reality. The actor joined a dunk session run by local baller I Have Farhat, who got just an hour's notice before Sandler strolled in. Farhat impressed him with a double-pump reverse dunk, and Sandler even asked for a lesson on the spot. One froze at first, star struck by the Sandman, known for chilling on courts worldwide, and his role as a basketball agent in the movie Hustle. Farhat called it surreal, to give props from a guy who's hung with NBA stars, especially while rebuilding his own Achilles without surgery. Then there's Zed Dala, a 36-year-old cancer survivor from Vancouver, who calls Sandler his childhood hero, thanks to Flicks Like Happy. Gilmore. Dala just wrapped chemo two months back, after stage three colon cancer hit hard. Surgery removed his whole large intestine, he dropped 45, pounds, lost his mom to cancer,

1:05and even tore his ACL, playing hoops with Sandler marked his first real game in eight months. Dala lit up, saying he was blown away by how genuine and kind the actor was, especially after such a brutal year. It felt like life flipping from rock bottom to pure joy in a flash. Others in town shooting the Netflix film Timeout, through late May, directed by Scott Cooper. Moments like this remind us, celebs can drop magic when you least expect it, just keep shooting your shot.