A mostly off-week for the Raptors, means a chance for James Johnson to really spread his wings.
So the Raptors arrived in London this week only to be there as David Bowie and Alan Rickman, two top-notch Englishmen, lost their respective battles to cancer. Bowie, more of the world (the universe?) than England specifically, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Rickman died this morning in London. There's no connection here between these news items and basketball other than geography. It just sucks, is all.
Celebrity deaths continue to have a weird effect on all of us.