Every sport has a game-changer such as Sidney Crosby, or in his prime, Kobe Bryant. Patrick Anderson is that in wheelchair basketball.

Sport may be given to hyperbolic language but in Anderson's case, the Canadian lives up to his billing as the best player in the world.

"In every sport, there always comes along a physical specimen who is ideally suited for that particular sport and the guy becomes a superstar," Canadian coach Jerry Tonello says. "We have Pat.

"Pat is the perfect wheelchair basketball machine."