The Toronto Raptors just completed easily the most successful three-year stretch in franchise history – and then fired their coach.
Why? Because Dwane Casey failed in the same way that virtually every Eastern Conference coach has over the past dozen seasons: He could not stop LeBron James in the playoffs. And as James nears the end of his 15th season, the gap between him and the rest of the East has arguably never felt wider.
“I’m definitely not a one-man army,” James told reporters Friday in response to a question about being responsible for Casey’s firing.