DeMar DeRozan finished his pre-game warm-up Sunday evening with a couple underhanded flip layups and some free throws and, as he walked off the Air Canada Centre court, he spotted Wayne Embry holding court on the bench.
DeRozan walked past and smiled, and after he shook the senior advisor’s hand he said quietly as he walked away: “We got this.”
And then he and his teammates took it.
With guile and guts and defence and DeRozan’s 30 points, the Toronto Raptors subdued the Indiana Pacers 89-84 in winning the deciding game of the best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference playoff series.