Late Friday night and into Saturday, they were just realizing how sad they were. “I already miss this team,” said head coach Nick Nurse. “We’re all brothers at the end of the day and, obviously, I love those guys,” said Pascal Siakam, after the biggest professional failure of his young career. “It’s sad, that we had more to give,” said Kyle Lowry, after the Raptors lost Game 7 in the second round to the Boston Celtics, 92-87. “But unfortunately we’re not giving no more right now.”
And then there was Lowry, who was the saddest. He doesn’t open up often, but after Toronto lost, you could see how much this meant to him.