At a lot of moments in Raptors history, Saturday evening’s scene around the Bay Street arena would have been unfathomable. The late-May weather was stormy, the skies roiling and the rain teeming. But still the faithful were lining up around the building draped in raincoats and garbage bags, still they were chanting “Let’s go Raptors” as though they were basking in the late-day sun.
Give Toronto’s sports fans credit for knowing a big moment when they see one. They haven’t come around these parts often. The last time one of Toronto’s big-three sports teams found itself in a position to advance to a championship series with a single victory, the year was 1993 and the spoiler of dreams was Wayne Gretzky and his L.