Fred VanVleet called it “nuance” in a wonderful media day soliloquy when he was discussing the organism that is an NBA team and who might be “The Man” and who might cast a long shadow, often unknown to those who merely watch it from afar.
The context was a conversation about Pascal Siakam, as intriguing and important a cog as exists on the Raptors roster today. It touched on what Siakam’s place is in the hierarchy and what he might have been getting at when he suggested last summer he never got truly comfortable in the position he found himself in last season.