The exchange lasted six seconds, and it is a sort of Zapruder film, if that’s your thing. Everything in society is a Zapruder film waiting to happen now, of course, and any part of life could be filmed and released into the voracious, endless, eternally preserving sea that is the Internet. If you’re an NBA coach, this is magnified. This may be one reason some of them seem so tense.
But after the San Antonio Spurs had to work to beat Toronto Raptors without its all-stars on Saturday night — Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan were being Popoviched, or rested with an eye towards the bigger picture — Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and Raptors coach Dwane Casey embraced.