The thing people forget about pro athletes, with all of the pageantry and celebrity and epic sense of drama in sports, is that they’re people. It’s the same with all celebrity, and with the internet, actually, and that combination only makes things worse. It’s like Seinfeld said once. People: they’re the worst.
They’re the best, too, which is what makes the joke. That’s part of what happened in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night in Toronto. The Raptors could have won a title, but made enough mistakes to blow the game, and didn’t.