The best team in basketball won its first NBA championship on Thursday night, dethroning the venerable Golden State Warriors in a classic Game 6. Heading into Thursday, the Raptors had held their playoff opponents to 42-per-cent shooting from the field. That’s a 68-win pace over an 82-game season, and that’s exclusively against playoff opponents. And the Raptors swept three games from them here — four if you count their only regular-season meeting at Oracle. They did it against a Warriors team that was not going to go down easily.

Source: thestar June 14, 2019 04:07 UTC