As the bodies fell by the side of the road and were left behind, more bodies, a stack, the survivors kept on playing, because what else was there to do? The Toronto Raptors and the Miami Heat were already locked in a war of attrition, basketball as mutual siege, as the Cleveland Cavaliers were waiting for whatever was left. The starting centres were gone; by the end of the night, the teams had lost a starting forward each. Their point guards were exchanging bar-fight faces, too, but only one of them had seen his bottom teeth go through his lip.
Raptors outlast Heat with the last stars standing: Arthur
