Sunday started slow. Chalk that up to three-quarters (rough guess) of all the media in town taking a morning to sleep in. The temperature had climbed overnight and the wind, a Chicago mainstay, thankfully dropped off. A few small boats were slowly chugging up and down the river, sheets of ice that had frozen around the edges breaking up and bobbing gently in their wake.
Not everyone took Sunday morning off. Kyle Lowry and Jimmy Butler put in work at an early morning Jr. NBA event at Chicago’s Navy Pier, meeting with kids before they got ready to compete in a three on three tournament to offer advice and encouragement.