There may not be a more fitting way to celebrate Canada Day than by welcoming home a national hero. Seven years ago, the idea of Kawhi Leonard returning to the Toronto Raptors would have sounded impossible to me. Even a week ago, you could have said the same thing, and I would not have believed you. After leading the Raptors to their first and only NBA championship in 2019 before departing in free agency for the Los Angeles Clippers, I thought Leonard had chosen California as

Don’t look now, but the Toronto Raptors are suddenly one of the most fun teams to watch in the NBA at the start of this young basketball season. The Raptors currently have a record of 11–5 and hold the second seed in the Eastern Conference and have emerged as one of the most interesting teams in a conference turned upside down this year. With Tyrese Haliburton out for the year in Indiana and Jayson Tatum sidelined with an Achilles injury for the Celtics, who underwent major c