It was early in this interrupted NBA season. Some desultory regular-season game against a drab opponent had long wrapped up and the Raptors had won, but had not played particularly well.
Some fans were grumbling, some in the media were wondering just how good the team was going to be, and a high-ranking team official — texting long after the game had ended — had a lament.
“We win and it’s not good enough,” he said. “It’s like everyone’s spoiled.”
Truthfully, why wouldn’t they be?
The Raptors are in the midst of one of the very best sports runs in Toronto in decades and decades, a string of success unprecedented in franchise history and among the very elite of the NBA:
- Sunday’s victory over the Memphis Grizzlies gave them at least a 50-win season for the fifth year in a row.