You might hear it a lot in the next couple weeks: If you come at the king, you best not miss. The Indiana Pacers could have beaten LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in their seven-game series. LeBron James had never lost in the first round. He came damned close.
So now, all we have is the defining moment in the history of the Toronto Raptors. Not just these Raptors, though it’s that, too. But the whole franchise. That’s all.
“When you are in the moment you don’t feel like it, but you look at the history of the league, there has always been a team that you had to leapfrog over,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey, two days before Game 1 of Toronto’s second-round series with the Cavaliers.