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SportsCenter R E might start with the Toronto part, Michael, but SportsCenter e R The headline is Kawai Leonard in the Big gamble.
This organization made knowing he could walk after this year.
It came to fruition there in the finals, which begin Thursday.
You know, I just talked to Messiah Jiri, the president of the Raptors, who essentially is personally responsible for that gamble, both the risk of it when he took it on.
Now the success of it that it's paid off to get to the finals.
That franchise has never done that.
And there were a lot of people who were really upset with no guarantees.
When besides did that, I wonder when I was watching a Y Leonard stand here and just looked up at this place, nearly 20,000 people screaming for them and for him, what's going through his mind?
How do you leave this?
We don't know much about what he thinks, but adoration must affect him in some way on DSO.
Now that's gonna be part of the story line, of course, going forward into next week, what can Toronto do with Golden State?
And what can Toronto due to keep Kawai letter.
Well, let's start with Part one.
What can they do to make this a competitive Siri's and possibly pull off the upset?
Naturally, Golden State has opened up as huge favorites naturally on, and everybody understands why Golden State has opened up that way.
Experience, of course, plays a part is a big part of what Toronto wound up beating Milwaukee, eliminating the Bucks even after being down to experience guys like Not just Pride but Gasol on and Kyle Lowry.
Guys had been the conference finals, at least and sometimes been burned by it but understood what it was like to play in them.
And now Golden State's got that in abundance over Toronto.
What can they do to make it a syriza?
Have all those role players who showed up against Milwaukee show up at plus 30% against Golden State?
Kawai letters gotta be great consistently again, but why would we doubt that?
Now?
Toronto is certainly the big story, you know.
That's the Disney story.
If you else I'm allowed to use that analogy, and it's it's one of the times.
I guess now, with warriors come in is something of a big, bad wolf I mean there, there's no villain.
The Warriors of two liked for that, but they come in as something of a villain IQ of spoil the perfect ending of this story in Toronto.
The Raptors the only team to sweep the regular season.
Siri's against Golden State.
Michael Wilbon in Toronto.
And Michael.
We always encourage you to use Disney analogies.
I'm sure thanks a lot.