It’s not funny “ha-ha” but it is darkly comic that the pre-game scrum with coach Nick Nurse before tonight’s Raptors-Suns contest was almost entirely about an unruly idiot mob of fascists storming the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. To be clear, I’m not smiling about it — but it is possible to feel dumbfounded and even to choke out a laugh at the absurdity of it all. I mean, what are we doing here?
Nevertheless, here we are; the basketball will still be played. The Raptors are in Phoenix with their young season already off to a rough 1-5 start.