The victory of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Championship final managed to be both dramatic and entirely predictable. In a sense we watched a perfect production of Hamlet. We knew the Danish prince wasn’t going to last through to curtain, yet his demise was still surprising and thrilling to see.
For fans of the Toronto Raptors, the entire final series was also profoundly depressing. Our guys ground out another excellent regular season, their fourth in a row, survived a sloppy (to put it kindly) first-round matchup with Milwaukee – then got curb-stomped by the Cleveland Cavaliers.