It’s perhaps a cop out to suggest that the turning point of Game 3 in the playoff series between the Raptors and 76ers happened before tip-off, or the day before yesterday, or perhaps somewhere back in Game 2. There’s even a compelling case to be made it happened back in 2001 or 1995 or, like, at the dawn of time when an asteroid hit the Earth. That’s not the point of this column though; it’s supposed to be about something that happened within the 48-minute span of a specific basketball game.
And yet, we just can’t help getting sucked into this existential abyss again.