How about a handful of little things to wrap up another week?

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If this is any indication of where things are going, this Raptors season can’t start – or end – fast enough.

I don’t really mean that because it could be a fun ride and the last one ended for me under circumstances I don’t really want to remember but cannot forget.

But …

We’re not even at Media Day yet and already too many people are trying to read too much into nothing that it’s driving me crazy.

Case in point: There was some suggestion somewhere that there was going to be some big deal “news conference” today with Kawhi Leonard and maybe Danny Green and perhaps Masai Ujiri (whose actually in New York at a NBA governors meeting), which would have been nice but the only people whose lives would have been made remotely easier for it was us, the folks who chronicle the team.

It was never “officially” scheduled, it was a bit of a pipedream and, really, this is the only accurate headline about it:

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“Thing That Wasn’t Going To Happen, Isn’t Going To Happen. Film at 11.”

Look, the simple fact is that Leonard doesn’t have to do anything with us until Monday and why would he? It’s not like he seems to love chatting with the media, I’d told he’s been in touch with teammates, there’s photographic evidence of him hanging with Raptors coaches. If he doesn’t show Monday morning we’ll have a story; today we’ve got borderline irresponsibility over something that wasn’t going to happen.

And I should probably also point out that DeMar, who never minded any of his media obligations, hasn’t done any “official” introductory gig in San Antonio, either.

This truly and honestly is much ado about nothing and if it’s any predictor on how people are going to go off half-cocked all season reading something into nothing, it’s going to be a terrible season of rumors, half-truths, extrapolations and frustrations.

Can’t wait for Monday!

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What’s up, cat got your tongues? Or typing fingers?

There are hardly any queries in the queue for the weekend mailbag and you all need to get over to askdoug@thestar.ca and type your little heads off.

Anything you want: Training camp, the end of summer, my favourite colour (blue) or food (basically anything Italian) or whatever else you can think of.

Go for it. It’s fun.

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All right, I have no idea how next week’s going to shake out workwise – it should be fun handling both Raptors training camp in Burnaby, B.C. and the women’s worlds in Tenerife, Spain – but we’re going to have to eat sometime.

Anyone got ideas for downtown Vancouver that are nice with good food, a solid selection of beverages and the kind of vibe a oldster like I might enjoy, we’re all ears over here.

Thanks.

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Tell me again how the poobahs at NHL headquarters can look themselves in the mirror after the chickenpoop decision they made about the Max Domi guy from the Canadiens?

Stunning and I know I don’t have any skin in the game and don’t really give a rat’s bum but how they can expect to have their Department Of Player Safety take remotely seriously after only suspending the guy for the rest of the exhibition season is beyond me.

For this:

That’s a suspension for a handful of games that don’t count and for which he’s not paid so there’s no financial penalty as I understand it and anyone who even attempts to defend that decision has been co-opted by the league and has no interest in true penalties being administered for a needless, senseless attack on a defenceless player.

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Name me one thing in the entire world of professional sports, worldwide, that’s as confusing and confounding and impossible to really figure out than the FedEx Cup golf playoffs.

You can win without winning, you can lose if you win and some other guy doesn’t lose as bad. Or something like that.

And Sunday night some guy’s gonna get like $10 million when he very well could have finished seventh or eighth this week while the guy who won stands off to the side with no fanfare.

Now, I know they’re changing it for next year to something that sounds – perhaps – a bit less confusing but I doubt that it will be.

It really does take away some of the enjoyment one might get watching what should be one of the more dramatic tournaments of the year.

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All right, off to finish off a story on the women’s team going into the worlds tomorrow. As a public service, they got at 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday and 6:30 a.m. ET on Sunday (that’s awfully early) and you can only watch on FIBA TV or DAZN, both of which will cost you.

We’ll be on the tweeter machine with updates, of course, even stupidly early Sunday.

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