PHILADELPHIA—At some point, there was a sound. Sometimes when a spectacular superstar comes through town in the regular season — a Kevin Durant, or Steph Curry, or in the old days, Kobe Bryant — the home crowd can be won over, and they just start cheering. The playoffs are different. It matters too much.
So at some point in a tight, tense, bruising Game 4 between the Toronto Raptors and the Philadelphia 76ers, Leonard would start his shooting motion and the entire building would ... groan? Moan? It was a sound of dread, a gasping oh no from 20,000 voices.