It was as honest and blunt as you might ever see Kyle Lowry in that setting, his heart played out on the court and broken by the Boston Celtics.
“It’s sad that we have more to give and unfortunately we can’t give anymore right now,” he said, sitting in front of reporters in the bubble, with dozens more on a Zoom conference call after the clock hit zeroes on a 92-87 Game 7 loss.
In the strangest NBA season in its 74 years, the Toronto Raptors were champions for a record 456 days. The world has morphed into something else in that time, some of it in ways that were unforeseen and others that were festering beneath the surface of our day-to-day, begging to be acknowledged.