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How the Rudy Gay trade (the second one) turned around the Raptors franchise

Our occasional series, Hindsight In 2020, digs into some of the most significant moves and moments in Toronto sports history: hirings and firings, trades and non-trades, things you knew a little bit about or didn’t know at all. This week, the Rudy Gay trade and how it put the Raptors on the path to an NBA title ...

The stress was real.

The rush was on.

A gaggle of Raptors reporters had gotten wind of a major impending transaction while sitting in cabs, fighting the traffic-choked highways of Los Angeles heading from an airport hotel to the downtown Staples Center and had been frantically working the phones on their way to the building.