I’m not sure I was ready for how comfortable I’d feel on Monday night. The walk into Scotiabank Arena, the pre-game mingling, the booming pipes of Herbie Kuhn rattling your bones during the intros — all of it felt just the same as it did the last time the Raptors played in Toronto back in February 2020.
Surely there was a sense of familiarity for the players as well, as they got reacquainted with their home locker room, and the usual beats and rhythms of a real ass home game — that is, in the cases of the two active players who played in the last Toronto home game of The Before Times.