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    A Historic NBA Championship for the Raptors

    The Golden State Warriors were hampered by injuries, but the league’s newest victors were built to seize on the opportunity.
    by Robert O'Connell Jun 14, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Kyle Terada / USA Today Sports / Reuters

    Midway through last night’s sixth and deciding game of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors, the Toronto Raptors’ star forward Kawhi Leonard sized things up from the top of the three-point arc. Leonard—6 feet 7 inches tall and 230 pounds, with wide hands and a stony expression—took two hard dribbles to the rim, jump-stopped, and rose for a layup, but the Warriors center Kevon Looney arrived to deliver a hard foul. Leonard muscled through the contact and made the shot anyway, extending the Raptors’ three-point lead and embodying, for a moment, a team-wide theme: of hard work done simply, of advantages unflashily accrued.

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