Of course Pascal Siakam was mad and disappointed and frustrated and a whole lot of other things when his extraordinary start to the NBA season was disrupted by an injury that’s now cost him 10 games.
That’s just the natural reaction after being dealt such a crappy blow on a seemingly innocuous slip on a wet spot on the court at Dallas’s American Airlines Center.
But the Raptors all-star has developed this inner peace — a level of tranquility and sense of a bigger, more important picture — that allows him to not get swallowed up by emotions that would do him no good.