When the NBA season came to a halt Wednesday night, every team in the league had a story interrupted. For some, the theme of 2019-20 was rebuilding, the promise of some not so far away hope. Other teams were in the heat of thrilling tales of ahead-of-schedule accomplishment. The league’s super-elite were still a couple months out from their narrative arcs really gaining steam. All these yarns slotted in somewhere along the spectrum of riveting to ho-hum. For those teams, and their fans, it’s a shame that each and every one might be stuck without a concluding chapter.
But of all the stories unfairly cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic, the one the Raptors were telling might have been the most compelling.