Today starts a trip into the NBA.

I will analyze all the 30 team of this magical league from East to West.

The first appointment is with the leader of the NBA: Toronto Raptors!

The Raptors are today the only franchise of the NBA. The Canadians have established themselves in recent years as one of the strongest and most continuous teams in the league until becoming the most successful team of the last regular season.

An unthinkable goal for a franchise that for years has been a refuge for young people or unpretentious veterans and who would never have imagined could have reached such levels.

The success was the result of hard work in the field and thanks to the managerial strategies of GM as Bryan Colangelo and Ujiri always careful to probe the market in atypical directions and often on players looking for either their own size or a ransom.

The Times where Bargnani was the first pick are very far, very very far. We must admit it, but the "Wizard" was one of the most loud flops of that period and the Raptors actually wasted a rare and great opportunity like having the first draft choice available.

Fortunately, then came the choice of DeMar Derozan, which later became the franchise man and the greatest talent seen in these parts.

Paired with Lowry, he formed one of the best pairs of children in the entire league.

In the summer the management, despite the record season 2017/2018 has decided to implement a small revolution.

The record coaches Dwayne Casey, now in Toronto, were torpedoed and set up a sensational trade with the San Antonio Spurs that brought in Canada Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green for Jacob Poetl and in fact DeRozan.

Trade risky view of the physical condition of recent Leonard and the explosion of DeRozan become a legitimate All Star but that should be read as a declaration of intent for a team that brought to Canada a player second perhaps only to sacred monsters like Kevin Durant and Lebron James for physical and technical qualities, mental hardness and leadership.

Kawhi Leonard healthy is the best defender of the league without arguments, as well as a player from 25 points per game.

The first quarter of the new season seems to have justified the Raptors leadership with the first Canadians in the conference and able to win tonight against Golden State. Toronto is first in the league to date and seems to scare Philadelphia and Celtics for the race to the conference title, very appealing today that LBJ flew to the west.

The key to this continuous growth is to be seen in the excellent managerial and market choices but also on having built a clog to which 1-2 functional players have been placed every year.

If Kawhi is proving to be a champion even far from Popovich and Lowry an incredible leader even without the faithful DeRozan to amaze this year were veteran Serge Ibaka, literally reborn, and the very young Pascal Siakam already clear today pretender to the role of MIP or Most Improved Player of the season.

Where the Raptors can arrive will tell us only the months that will come but one thing is certain: yesterday no top player would ever go in the cold Toronto to play for fun or go in lottery, today everyone looks with attention and admiration to the franchise Canadian. Toronto is one of the favorites to the ring, it is perhaps the most solid and continuous team in the league. It remains to be seen whether even the Playoffs will be able to be so compact, determined and energetic.

A beautiful tale of those that only the NBA could give.