Welcome to the Friday edition of The Cooler, where it’s officially air conditioner season. Let’s get to it:
*It’s dangerous on a lot of levels to make comparisons between athletes at far different stages of their careers simply because of physical appearance. So I’m going to tread very lightly into this area with the knowledge that an established 25-year-old NBA player and an 18-year-old prospect are, obviously, two very different people.
That said, things that work tend to get copied. The NBA’s Raptors are evidence of that on a lot of levels — and one of them was on display front and center in Thursday’s Game 1 finals victory over Golden State.