Holly MacKenzie - Raptors.com
Less than 24 hours after a game-tying dunk that threatened to take the roof off the Air Canada Centre, rookie Norman Powell was getting used to speaking into a microphone as he addressed media at practice.
“Oh man,” he said gesturing to the microphone. Podium. [This is] different.”
Players speak in small scrums on the practice floor in the regular season. During the playoffs, due to the volume of reporters and cameras, a podium is set up in a work room and the most-requested players are brought in to do their media availability in front of a mic.