On Tuesday, Toronto Raptors center Serge Ibaka asked superstar teammate Kawhi Leonard what junk food he was looking forward to enjoying now that the season was over. Leonard responded with his now trademark deadpan bemusement.

The Raptors are NBA Champions for the first time in franchise history, and with that victory comes all the revelry and exultation that one would expect from teams after they deliver an NBA title to Canada for the first time ever.

For the country in which basketball was invented to have an NBA championship somehow feels right, even if the win was marred by disastrous lower body injuries to two of the league’s brightest stars.

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However, the Raps still showed out during their championship parade, with multiple players making headlines for their raucous and amusing behavior, as well as for the side-splitting soundbites they produced during the speeches following the parade procession.

Somehow, one of the most buttoned-up superstars in recent NBA history has become something of a cult hero, and also, shockingly, one of the most engaging personalities in the NBA.

After stories of his deadpan trash talking bubbled up to the surface during the NBA Playoffs (“board man gets paid,” “bucket,” the apocryphal “apple time” story, et al.), Leonard has been on something of a comedic kick, culminating in the mocking of his own robotic laugh during his preseason press conference after the Raptors traded him.

Like the rest of us, Leonard plans on “drinking alcohol and eating desserts all the time.” Forget an NBA Championship, that sounds like the good life.