The past couple of seasons of Toronto Raptors basketball have been a tale of two King Leonidases (Leonidi?) from the movie 300. Last season was when his bravado at the hot gates peaked, when he and his men held their ground, demanded that their adversaries come to take their weapons, and laughed at the arrows that rained down upon them.
This season, however, the adversity and the odds finally got the better of Toronto. Their game against the Wizards last night was like the final arrow that felled the Spartan king. Of course, the Spartans then got a top draft pick a reloaded for the next year, so we can only hope we continue to follow that pattern with the Raptors.