Everything is different the morning after the loss that ends the season. The sun might be shining, signalling a summer that’s creeper closer by the day, but everything about the daily schedule that has been adhered to since September has changed. There is no practice to attend to. No morning shootaround or game-day nap. Instead, there’s the final day of media obligations waiting to be fulfilled. A room of reporters and cameras waiting to ask about shortcomings of the season as well as what’s next.
For the Toronto Raptors, the 2016-17 season was the second consecutive 50-win season.