“I was very excited about that. I was [on] the school basketball team when I was in highschool, so I really was paying a lot of attention to this competition. I was talking to my friend last night — she was also really interested in this — and she was telling me the score in the last [quarter] around 30 or 40 seconds, and their scores were really equal. But at the last stretch the Raptors came out on top.”
“I mean I’m glad that they won. I thought it was really interesting because the game was airing until midnight-ish, [and] from where I lived I could hear cars honking and people screaming. And I’m like, ‘wow, I don’t watch sports at all,’ but I mean I’m happy for them and I hear it’s a pretty historic thing so, good for them.”
“My reaction to the Raptors winning the NBA championships was just a reaction of joy. It felt really nice for a Canadian team to actually win something…. Well we’ve won the Gray Cup and stuff like that was kind of a smaller event because it’s just Canadian teams. But this is the first time that we’ve won something in a while that also has US teams competing as well, and it was just sheer energy. I was out in a pub that night and the energy in the room was just amazing.”
