As showdowns go, it wasn’t, not really. The Toronto Raptors are merely the best team in the East right now; the Golden State Warriors are the two-time kings of the basketball world. Warriors guard Klay Thompson allowed this week that this game could be a preview of June, and maybe it will be. The Raptors have existed for two decades, and there has never been a better chance.
But the Warriors came in without the injured Steph Curry and Draymond Green, and they are still working through their family drama from two weeks ago, when Kevin Durant yelled at Green for not passing him the ball at the end of a game and Green replied: Why do you keep holding your free agency over our heads (expletive later revealed in the press)?