It really was just a year ago, though that may be hard to believe given all that’s transpired since.
A year ago to the day from Thursday when a phone call from Kenya to California reverberated through Toronto and Texas and everywhere NBA basketball is played.
One emotional, life-changing year that forever altered lives and relationships and ultimately the fortunes of a handful of league franchises.
Time flies.
Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri made the call from the Kenyan capital, where he’d been — with the sister of former U.S. president Barack Obama — opening a new basketball facility to continue his life’s work of using sport to enhance the lives of African youth.