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TORONTO — Jubilant fans took to social media after the Toronto Raptors' series-winning, buzzer beating basket to demand the team's soft-spoken star be handed the mayor's job, along with anything else Kawhi Leonard wanted.

TORONTO — Raptors Uprising GC have sent Trevion (All Hail Trey) Hendrix to Cavs Legion GC for Gerry (Sick X 973) Knapp in an NBA 2K League esports trade. Knapp, a native of Verona, N.J.

If Dolly Kambo couldn't see Kawhi Leonard sink a legendary shot for her favourite sports team in person, then watching him do it from a relative's wedding was the next best thing.

TORONTO — Two and a half hours. That's how long Danny Green gave the Toronto Raptors to bask in the greatest moment in franchise history.

CLEVELAND — John Beilein has spent a coaching lifetime taking ordinary programs and turning them into consistent winning ones. All in college. He's getting his NBA shot.

TORONTO — Forward Olsi Krasniqi has left the Toronto Wolfpack to rejoin the London Broncos. Krasniqi signed with the Wolfpack after their inaugural 2017 season in League 1, the third tier of English rugby league.

As he continues chasing his football dream, Montreal Alouettes quarterback Jeff Mathews is buoyed knowing regardless of the challenge, someone has his back. Mathews' older sister, Katie, was paralysed following an '06 auto accident.

TORONTO — Dawson Murschell and Jim Long will represent Canada at the BetVictor World Cup of Darts.

ROME — Canada's Denis Shapovalov is off to the second round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. The 20-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont.

TORONTO — Kawhi Leonard squatted and watched as his moon shot from the corner bounced off the rim an agonizing once, twice, three times, then four before finally dropping through the hoop.