Blame it on the Curse of the Bull, the ghost of Chuck Swirsky, the phantom of Doug McDermott or any basketball folklore narrative you’d like, but the Raptors finally beat Chicago on Tuesday and hope to carry this momentum into Miami tonight.
It was only appropriate that the Raptors defeated the Bulls in such absurd fashion, battling back from a 15 point deficit in the fourth quarter to finally relinquish their inner Chicago demons. DeMar DeRozan and Jimmy Butler engaged in an old-fashioned game of “anything you can do, I can do better” with DeRozan coming out on top.