Let’s face it, We The North members everywhere. Until this week, we haven’t been feeling wonderful. Now hope has sprung eternal in the human breast.
The Toronto Raptors have enjoyed a solid, indeed highly successful, off-season. The free agents we wanted to return to the fold, Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka, did return. Yes, their deals were expensive, but it’s the cost of doing business in the NBA these days.
But we all know there was a certain artificiality in our expressions of relief at the news two critical members of the Raptors core would be in town for the foreseeable future.