Not that crazy. If you assume the teams are absolutely evenly matched Toronto should be a 3-1 favorite just because they only need to win one more game, while the Warriors need two. For this to be even money, you need to think the Warriors have a 70 percent chance of winning each game, which seems over the top to me.
All right, if Raptors lose tonight, how mad will the panic be?
What a game! Hope that Thompson is ok.
Come on rapppps
Well, the Raptors are up 3 with 4 minutes to play. Klay Thompson is out of the game and not returning. If Toronto loses this one, I really don’t think they’ll recover.
Wow
The dinos did it!
Could not be happier for Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol.
Goaltending should be a reviewable play, like shot clock and 3 point shots (re Green’s illegal tip in that wasn’t called).
Congrats to Toronto :). Wherever Kawhi may go from here, even if he just ends up being a one year rental that trade paid off BIG TIME.
Congrats to the Raptors. Such bad luck for the Warriors with injuries, I hope Klay’s injury is minor. It was a really interesting series.
Interesting trivia: this is the first time since 2001 that an NBA team (in this case, Warriors) has gone 0-3 at home in the Finals.
Wonder if any team has ever gone 0-4 at home in a best-of-seven series, in any sport?
I’d note that for this to happen, neither team could win a single home game. I feel certain that an NHL series several years ago went to game 7 with no home team having won a game yet, but the home team won game 7.
Sounds like a torn ACL for Klay. Brutal.
The finals of the 1992 Calder Cup Playoffs* were won by the Adirondack Red Wings over the St. John’s Maple Leafs, 4 road wins to 3 road wins. I don’t think it’s happened in the NBA or NHL.
*for the American Hockey League, a top-tier minor hockey league
Congrats to the Raptors and their fans. A well-deserved championship.
I can do with the loss but could do without all the players sustaining all the injuries…
Congratulations Toronto…as someone who is not a Raps fan but does work here, this was more fun to watch than Mike James and Rafael Araujo.
Won reports the Wiz will offer Masai 10/yr. I have a hunch that if anything, Masai will renegotiate with Toronto. I know nothing though.
Everyone expects Kawhi to sign a 1 and 1 with Toronto. Not everyone, but I’ve herd it a lot…I expect that with his injury history that he gets the max. I have a hunch he leaves. Just please not the Lakers!
Congrats to the Raptors, but I hate watching a team win the Finals over a team with serious injuries. Ah well, the Raptors don’t control that, and a year or two from now, nobody will even remember or care. The Raptors will have a championship banner hanging from the rafters.
A curious Steph Curry stat: he is now a career 0-8 on go-ahead shots with less than 20 seconds remaining on the clock in the NBA playoffs.
2 years from now the fact that they beat Giannis and Embiid to get there may come out. Sure GSW wasn’t 100%, but on the whole, they beat some good teams to win it all.