After losing 11 games in a row to the Bulls, there was a strain of thought suggesting the Raptors could only break the streak in one of two ways: a massive blowout, or a nail-biter. There was no way Toronto could beat Chicago by merely modest means. Not this team, the one that has bedeviled the Raptors for the past three years, not after all that has happened. No, this Bulls team would require a literal fight, something approaching a spiritual exorcism, to defeat. So, the nail-biter then.
Despite a lacklustre half of basketball, with a lead that got as big as 16 for Chicago, against all odds, the Toronto Raptors finally did it.