CLEVELAND—By the end the Toronto Raptors had become a punchline. On the flagship ESPN show Pardon The Interruption, Tony Kornheiser called them the Washington Generals. On ESPN’s nationally broadcast Dan Le Batard radio show, as the Raptors faced elimination at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James in Game 4 Monday night, Le Batard and his crew were having a ball.
“How embarrassing is it, though? You change everything about yourselves to beat this one person, and he’s howling with laughter at you, shooting basketballs out his butt into the basket?” said Le Batard.