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TORONTO — Fans cheered on the Toronto Raptors from all corners of Canada, gathering around televisions in bars and living rooms and squeezing shoulder to shoulder in city squares for mass public viewings.
"It's what we've always said, it's one team, one country, and if you can put it together that way and you're good, there'll be unified support. We saw that." Olympic ice dance champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the 2018 team award. Only one other basketball team has been honoured — the Canadian team that won the U19 FIBA World Cup in 2017.
With a lunchbucket collection of players carrying big chips, the Raptors made it easy to cheer for them. They defied the odds, winning with a squad that boasted zero NBA lottery picks — superstarThe only NBA squad outside the U.S. gave the league a truly global champion. The Raptors' roster mirrored the city's diversity, with players from all corners of the globe — Cameroon, Congo, Spain, China, England and Canada.
"You just see moments from the championship run, and you actually remember exactly where you were during those times. It brings some shivers through you," Ujiri said."One thing that's stupid about our job is you're so in the mood of now, you're thinking about the season now, but every now and then I'll see Freddy screaming with his scar, or you see Kawhi run and dunk with his left hand . . . just moments. They're all precious.
Capturing the Larry O'Brien Trophy was a story a quarter of a century in the making, and the colossal punctuation mark on a season that started off with plenty of questions. Ujiri had fired coach Dwane Casey, replacing him with Nurse, a rookie head coach, and swapped franchise iconfor Leonard, an unknown commodity who'd played just nine games the previous season due to injury.
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