The Toronto Raptors, as currently constituted, are not winning an NBA title, which as obvious statements go ranks up there with hey, the city’s traffic could be better. Their global ambassador Drake was supposed to speak to the media before the game but was snarled in a car coming in from the airport, which will probably eventually be the subject of a plaintive song of some kind. Good luck to him.
But that didn’t change the essential mission of their first-round playoff series with the Washington Wizards, after a loss in Game 1. It was simple, really.
Don’t be the same old Raptors.