“But considering the Raptors’ long history of abject misery — year after year of losing basketball, terrible injuries, brutal trades, bone-headed draft pick selections, and everything else — maybe the karmic balance will work in Toronto’s favour after all.”
If those words look familiar, it’s because they’re ripped from this very site from our Editor, Daniel Reynolds, immediately after the Spurs won Round 1 of the DeMar-Kawhi saga. It was a valid assessment in early January and, with a little more hindsight now, appears to have been quite prophetic.