CLEVELAND—When we look back at this Raptors team, what will we remember? What are the lessons? Well, of everything that has happened, it will be hard to top LeBron James’s full-court Game 3 dash, his soaring banking buzzer-beater, that feeling of watching something unfold that you know will echo through decades. It will be easy to remember the way he let the ball go, too. It was like his Michael Jordan Jumpman logo, in real time.
And underneath all that noise are the Raptors, down 0-3 in this second-round playoff matchup, dead men walking, and the unshakeable feeling that this should have been a series, a real series.