The Raptors play the Rockets tonight, live from the Disney World Bubble.
How’s that for a sentence? To be clear: the game doesn’t count, it is just one of three scrimmages NBA teams are playing in advance of the actual return to play tipping off on the first of August. Still, after a long and unprecendented lay-off, and in the shadow of the very real COVID-19 pandemic that is still raging outside the walls of this new semi-permeable fort: we get to watch our beloved Raptors play basketball.
As I’ve written before, this whole restart still strikes me as a bad idea, a bad bit of messaging to a country and continent still trying to find their way.