Today is the Los Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball’s birthday. (Say that 10 times fast.) He turns 20, which is all nice and good — even if his dad will likely be obnoxious about it. The Raptors, as you know by now, are in Los Angeles to play the Lakers. They have lost two games in a row, which is decidedly not nice and good. In fact, it sucks.
These two emotive trains are heading straight towards each other and, as is often the case for emotions — to say nothing of trains — there can be only one.