As DeMarre Carroll hobbled off the practice court on Sunday afternoon — diagnosis: sore ankle that will not keep him out of Monday’s Game 4 — he spent a few moments reliving LeFlop de LeBron.
By now you’ve probably seen LeFlop. Raptor fans were outraged by it — the phantom foul that got Carroll initially slapped with a technical foul in Saturday’s Game 3 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Air Canada Centre. And assuming you’ve seen it, you know why the play still riles the faithful. The blow that sent LeBron James to the hardwood as though he’d been struck by lightning, after all, was actually delivered by the arm of James’s teammate, Tristan Thompson, albeit with some crafty assistance from Carroll, the Raptors forward whose well-placed elbow urged Thompson’s arm in the direction of James’s face.