Folks, the NBA season is almost upon us — uh, scratch that, the NBA season starts today! Where did the time… oh, right. It’s 2020. Sigh.
Thankfully for us, your faithful HQ bloggers, the league has bequeathed us an extra day to get ready: The Toronto Raptors kick off their season tomorrow night against the New Orleans Pelicans.
We’ll have full preview coverage of that game tomorrow, but for now, let’s step back and take the 10,000-foot view with some thoughts about the season to come.
Tampa Blues
After watching the Open Gym “The Bubble” documentary series — which is now on YouTube in full and is worth your time — and seeing the Raptors living out of hotel rooms for three months, it really struck me how much it sucks that they have to do it all again now.