As so many of his players said through the years, he saw no color, only talent. “I just got done jumping on the trampoline with my two-year-old daughter,” Heap told Byrne, “and it’s hard to get a bigger smile than that. The championship-winning Western New York Flash was sold and moved to North Carolina. MVP Kawhi Leonard effortlessly took the place of Tim Duncan, arguably the greatest player of his generation in what had to be the most taciturn transfer of power in NBA history.