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TORONTO — On the matter of Andrew Wiggins’first NBA game against his hometown team, Toronto did not exactly manage to act like it has been here before.
Despite the previous appearances of highly drafted NBA players like Tristan Thompson and Anthony Bennett on the Air Canada Centre hardwood, to say nothing of the visits from a legitimate Canadian superstar in Steve Nash, this city has swooned more than a little at the arrival of Wiggins. On Wednesday he was on the front page of one local newspaper and leading television broadcasts, and even the Prime Minister was in attendance. For a day at least, Wiggins was generally making the Toronto Raptors, in the midst of their best-ever season, somewhat of an afterthought.
He The North, as it were.
(Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)
