CLEVELAND—As Cleveland’s basketball crowd celebrated its team’s ninth straight playoff win over the pitiable Raptors on Saturday night — dancing on the sporting graves of a visiting team now down 3-0 in a debacle of a series — the arena cameras caught an image of two fans in LeBron James jerseys wearing matching goat masks.
That’d be “goat” as in G.O.A.T. — Greatest of All Time. That running bank shot at the buzzer of a 105-103 win only added to his ever-growing case.
The mask, mind you, might have been just as fitting if you were a road-tripping Raptors supporter in your DeMar DeRozan jersey.