Congrats to the Raptors. liira - I don't watch BB but is that what the fans chanted?

Good on the Raptors - I know almost nothing about basketball, but have to admire the team for this wonderful achievement!

Congratulations Raptors. Thank you for making your win our win this time.

I didn't get to watch I was working. So glad to hear the screams and yells on my way home. :-). They were still happening long after the game ended.

We Canadians needed that right now...

Congratulations are well deserved, even though I was rooting for the Warriors.

Injuries are to be expected, it's a matter of who and when. Compared to other sports, basketball teams can be more adversely affected by injuries since the squads are small and only 5 play at a time.

The Raptors won and congrats to them, no sour grapes from me, but injuries to each of the Warriors' several impact players during the playoffs and during the finals had a significant effect and determined the outcome. Had Thompson, Curry, and Durant been healthy, I think it's clear the result would have been different. Luck runs good and bad and that's how it is. I think when two teams battle at full strength and then there's a winner, the assessment of the result (and the feelings about it) are different than when one is mostly at par and the other clearly sub-par.

elmer, i agree... if durant, thompson and curry were healthy, i think the outcome probably would have been different.

i had 'no skin' in the game but glad for Kyle Lowry, Villanova product. that dude is tough as nails! really admire the talent of Kawai Leonard, he is phenomenal, hoping he comes to the Sixers :)

800,000 people on the streets in Toronto. Thankfully no major injuries or riots. I feel bad for the police officers, really what could they have done like a crowd like that.

It's a long season and all teams lose games. The Raptors lost to New Orleans during the season - that team finished in 13th place out of 15 in their division. Both finalists lost to Detroit, who finished 8th. Do you find these results meaningful relative to the championship playoffs? I don't.

You missed my point, but whatever.

No, I understood it well, you missed what I said. My reply to your comment was that individual results, single games, win or loss streaks, that happen during the regular season don't matter and mean nothing for a playoff series in any sport. It's a different situation, the two teams involved enter with clean slates. What happens in a playoff series and the games thereof are what count. Anything can happen regardless of past or even recent encounters.

I promise you that neither the Toronto players nor its coaches figured they had an easy series ahead because they had beaten the Warriors during the regular season.

No offense, Elmer, but sometimes you over analyze things to death. The OP is just excited her team won.

I am happy the Raptors won too. I don't follow basketball either, but I just liked that team. In my mind, I picture the Canadian crowds celebrating very civilly, because that is how they strike me in general. :)

"In my mind, I picture the Canadian crowds celebrating very civilly, "

Then you missed hearing of this incident, it's appalling conduct by the Canadian fans. Unlike some who have added their honest and polite comments to this thread, these louts knew what the impact of the injury would be. First cite a CBC (Canadian) source.

CBC on Toronto fans cheering opponent's injury

Same incident from Washington Post

I have never watched a basketball game in my life, but watched the last two, as both were contenders for the Raptors to take the cup home. Both were nail biters, that's for sure.

The game where we won, we won before that last shot in the final .9 seconds was taken. But rules are rules and when someone fouls and the other team gets a free shot, you have to take that free shot. And those final free shots just upped the score a tad bit more.

As for injuries: had this been a soccer game, 95% of the players would have been hauled away by ambulance. ;)

As for the fans in the stadium who cheered KD's pain (first it was so wrong, and second I don't think they realized just how bad his injury was), this is how real Canadian Raptors fans responded: Go Fund Me for KD's Charity: We are Sorry!