Hours before the NBA was flipped upside down by the coronavirus, Nav Bhatia walked around a room full of Toronto Raptors and squirted sanitizer on any set of hands he could find.
The Raptors were gathered at a hotel on the Lakeshore to celebrate the launch of the Nick Nurse Foundation — the head coach’s new charity in support of basketball, literacy and music programs for children around the city. Players, team staff, their families, the Hamilton band Arkells and Bhatia, a Raptors superfan, were among the people piled into a room at Hotel X.