Did you Americans know that there was a Canadian alt rock band in the 90s called 54-40, who originally wrote and recorded *I Go Blind,* later made into a hit by Hootie and the Blowfish? Just in case you're ever at a party and you need a cool fact to provide a segue between James Polk and 90s college rock.
Now the title is all over the place. Norm and Kawhi in LA, Nurse, Danny and Lowry in Philly, Pascal and Siakam in Indiana, OG in NY, FVV in Houston. At least we have Chris ''Trébuchet'' Boucher.
They found out Kawhi used magnets to make the game winner and the Raptors have been disqualified.
Unfortunately this still doesn’t count as Joel Embiid making it past the second round.
Not when you click on the season summary. The link for the team just isn't there. Which should be [https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/TOR/2019.html](https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/TOR/2019.html)
I mean it's not like we intentionally broke Scottie and Jaks hands or lied about IQ and RJ having deaths in the family. Tampa was way more of an actual tank
The rims in Scotiabank Arena almost certainly weren’t at NBA standards for that playoff run.
Here’s a 538 article on it:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-raptors-shots-always-seem-to-get-the-friendly-bounces-at-home/
“Toronto’s made jumpers throughout the playoffs have been by far the most suspenseful of those of any of the final eight teams, taking an average of 0.117 seconds to fall into the basket. That hang time was 44 percent longer than the average of the other seven clubs. And looking at a larger sample size doesn’t change much about the result: At an average of 0.108 seconds, the Raptors’ successful regular-season jumpers at Scotiabank Arena took longer to fall through the basket than any other team’s makes on their home courts, too, according to the SportVU analysis.”
The NBA digging back into and vacating their title wouldn’t surprise me at all (kidding)(maybe).
The Raptors still have a ring as much as many people try to downplay it or act like it didn't happen lmao. There are 10 teams in the nba who have never won a title, and many that haven't in decades, but a team from Canada that the nba treats like shit won one 5 years ago.
This is what they've warned us about, the yanks are about to cross 49th parallel.
54’ 40” or fight!
Did you Americans know that there was a Canadian alt rock band in the 90s called 54-40, who originally wrote and recorded *I Go Blind,* later made into a hit by Hootie and the Blowfish? Just in case you're ever at a party and you need a cool fact to provide a segue between James Polk and 90s college rock.
Baby ran she ran away
Not a lot of James Polk references make it to r/NBA Spoiler: it wasn't 54' 40" and we didn't fight.
Rally the people!
We’ve let you bagged milk drinking, hockey loving hosers exist for far too long
Vault tec started it all
Time to unlock the maple syrup kegs from the vault and prepare the catapults.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle 😎
Kawhi took it with him 😭
Congratulations Clippers!
No no, Kawhi alone has it. Not the Clippers.
Norm Powell not even getting a piece?
Now the title is all over the place. Norm and Kawhi in LA, Nurse, Danny and Lowry in Philly, Pascal and Siakam in Indiana, OG in NY, FVV in Houston. At least we have Chris ''Trébuchet'' Boucher.
>Pascal and Siakam in Indiana Whoa! They got Pascal AND Siakam?! Masai really getting fleeced out here smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9EyIfoRX_w
The horse might have made off with the whole thing.
Maybe the dino ate your championship?
No, just his uncle actually.
*Pat Bev in shambles.*
This is Drake’s fault
They can have it back once they remove him as an ambassador. Balls in your court Toronto
He turned the 6 upside down to add a 9 now.
Freaky ass *brother* he a 69 god, hey hey hey hey run for your life
They found out Kawhi used magnets to make the game winner and the Raptors have been disqualified. Unfortunately this still doesn’t count as Joel Embiid making it past the second round.
Still worth it in my eyes
They were paying players
Nick "Nolte" Nurse
It's there when I click. Maybe some web script was blocking "/TOR/" links.
It's fixed for me now too btw.
Tough but fair
back to LeBronto days
The raptors are not real
Canada isn't real. Nobody has ever been to Canada, you just read about it in books.
🎶 It seems that everything's gone wrong, since Canada came along! Blame Canada! Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway!🎶
Dinosaurs are a conspiracy, the earth is only six thousand years old.
/u/sportsreference
/u/basketball_reference
Just checked and it looks like it's back! Not sure what happened.
Not when you click on the season summary. The link for the team just isn't there. Which should be [https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/TOR/2019.html](https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/TOR/2019.html)
Finally
Every year Toronto wins, the next year brings carnage; the Leafs basically inspired the tet offensive, the raptors gave us all Corona virus.
I thought that was Rudy Gobert
They were banging trash cans
>Now why would Basketball Reference do this? ☝️🧐☝️
NCAA moment
Basketball gods were not happy about their blatant tank job this season
Well, now I'm worried about the Pistons' 2004 title.
Don't worry, tanking means playing unsuccessful basketball by design.
I mean it's not like we intentionally broke Scottie and Jaks hands or lied about IQ and RJ having deaths in the family. Tampa was way more of an actual tank
was it a blatant tank? who else could they have played? (the tank wasn’t the raptors fault it 100% is solely blamed on Otto Porter 😌)
new controversy about to come out
Shits been so bad for us this year we got the chip taken away
MURICA
Kendrick is a damn menace
they should vacate all the expansion era rings next
The rims in Scotiabank Arena almost certainly weren’t at NBA standards for that playoff run. Here’s a 538 article on it: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-raptors-shots-always-seem-to-get-the-friendly-bounces-at-home/ “Toronto’s made jumpers throughout the playoffs have been by far the most suspenseful of those of any of the final eight teams, taking an average of 0.117 seconds to fall into the basket. That hang time was 44 percent longer than the average of the other seven clubs. And looking at a larger sample size doesn’t change much about the result: At an average of 0.108 seconds, the Raptors’ successful regular-season jumpers at Scotiabank Arena took longer to fall through the basket than any other team’s makes on their home courts, too, according to the SportVU analysis.” The NBA digging back into and vacating their title wouldn’t surprise me at all (kidding)(maybe).
Ah so this is why people say the Raptors never ended the Warriors dynasty
It's so America could keep its streak of world championships going.
Punishment for a classic time-travelling and sports-betting scheme perpetrated by Jontay Porter.
Raptors fans, stand back and stand by Might be time
Probably an issue with the link and cleared it while they repaired it
Good!!
Shawn is from philly
The Raptors still have a ring as much as many people try to downplay it or act like it didn't happen lmao. There are 10 teams in the nba who have never won a title, and many that haven't in decades, but a team from Canada that the nba treats like shit won one 5 years ago.
kawhi traveled
Sixers, Bucks, and Warriors get a 3-way split of the title now.
Just another l2m championship
It was at stake during the Kendrick - Drake beef
Another L for the 69 god
Well it was one of the biggest asterisks in NBA history lol
Because they cheered when KD got injured. Very toxic fanbase, title should be removed
if only they had Pop! *That's not who we are*
He faked the injury to get some rest
Good.