It was the most successful Raptors season ever, until it was the most disappointing Raptors season ever, and now more than ever they’re punchline material south of the border. The fight to be taken seriously could have ended here, Bruce Arthur writes.
CLEVELAND—The Toronto Raptors had become a punchline. On the flagship ESPN show Pardon The Interruption, Tony Kornheiser called them the Washington Generals. On ESPN’s nationally broadcast Dan Le Batard radio show, before the Raptors faced elimination at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 Monday night, Le Batard and his crew were having a ball.