By the standards of the crisis-a-minute NBA, the Raptors arrived at Monday’s media day with a franchise storyboard essentially bereft of headline-worthy drama.
In Boston, they’re not done putting out the firestorm around head coach Ime Udoka, who’s been suspended one year for conducting an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer. In Phoenix, there’s a nightmarish owner, Robert Sarver, now vowing to sell the franchise after a league-commissioned report that documented his refusal to stop saying the N-word even after he was repeatedly told to stop saying the N-word.
In Brooklyn on Monday, high-maintenance star players Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving were back in the fold in the wake of an off-season soap opera that dominated social media.