The most Toronto thing about the Shot was not that it went in. The Shot going in was decidedly not Toronto. For it to be Toronto, to really capture the spirit of Toronto and, in particular, Toronto sports, the shot had to not go in. Yes, we are going to split infinitives on the one-year anniversary of Kawhi Leonard’s Shot against the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. It’s that kind of day and that kind of memory, now a year old. The Raptors won the game, but it is just as easy — all too easy; way, way, way too easy — to imagine they hadn’t.
The Shot Revisited: It was the most Toronto thing ever, except for the outcome
