It seems strange to say, but one round after being eliminated from the playoffs, the Toronto Raptors are losing the Eastern Conference final. Sure, on the scoreboard it says the Boston Celtics lead the Cleveland Cavaliers two games to none, and who are we to argue with that? But the subhead is that the Toronto Raptors look ever more like chumps, more like suckers, than they did when they were swept out of the second round as the No. The Celtics are a gang of handsome teenagers who ride motorcycles in formation and get straight A’s. In other words, the Celtics, without injured stars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, have performed the simplest trick there is: They made the Cleveland Cavaliers look like their actual selves.

Source: thestar May 16, 2018 23:10 UTC