Well, we made it. Enough enjoying the moment, savouring the best year in franchise history, and all that other summery nonsense. It’s playoff time, baby. The Toronto Raptors have arrived, winners of 59 of their 82 games and three of four this week, to play the Washington Wizards in the first round.
Appropriately, there are clenched sphincters about this. It wouldn’t be a Raptors playoff run without worrying about the past (our anxieties are so famous, the New Yorker is covering them!) and the Wizards present many traumatic playoff memories.
Let’s use the bench to unclench those sphincters, though.