Sitting in front of a backdrop in a hotel in Tampa Bay the day before team practices begin in early December, normalcy seems like a distant memory for Masai Ujiri and the Toronto Raptors.
Last season ended in the bubble three months ago, after a pandemic-induced four-month hiatus that has shifted the world in many ways, the sports calendar being just one of them.
Ujiri doesn’t know exactly when his team will be back in Toronto. As it was pointed out to the team’s president on a call with reporters on Saturday morning, it could be at the midpoint of the season in March.