It happened after Game 1 of the NBA Finals. In the minutes following the Raptors’ decisive win, as the fences surrounding Jurassic Park were pulled open by security guards, blissful fans spilled out onto Bremner Blvd.
Fans in the happy mob were hollering from the top of every surface they could clamber onto: “Let’s go Raptors!”
Some of the more exuberant in the bunch scaled a cherry picker on York St., with one woman reaching the basket. After a brief celebration, she shimmied back down to earth, with everyone shouting “MVP! MVP!” as she went. By this point, there was a full-on street party in effect.