The elation in the voice of Wendy Sparks is palpable about eight hours before her son was to fulfil one of his life’s dreams.
She’s on the phone from her Montreal home: the church service she holds virtually completed for another Sunday morning, the anticipation of the evening to come building rapidly.
The mother of new Raptors centre Khem Birch can barely contain herself after a weekend of waiting.
“It was the longest 48 hours of my life,” she said of waiting for Birch, formerly of the Orlando Magic, to clear waivers and join the Raptors.