All’s good with Kawhi as Raptors’ season kicks off

He arrived, to borrow from the great orator Winston Churchill, a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, of whom everything was known but nothing was, really.

He showed up with a glittering past as an outstanding basketball player who hadn’t really played in an entire season. He arrived as an intensely private individual in this era of social media self-promotion. His first utterances, about what kind of man he was, elicited a deadpanned “I’m a fun guy.”