If you transported yourself to plenty of moments in Raptors history, Saturday evening’s scene around the Bay Street arena would have been unfathomable. The late-May weather was stormy, the skies roiling and the rain teeming. But still the faithful snaked around the building draped in raincoats and garbage bags. Still they chanted “Let’s go Raptors” as though they were basking in the late-day sun.
Give Toronto’s sports fans credit for knowing a big moment when they see one. They don’t come around these parts often. Which is why Toronto’s 100-94 victory in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final — an epochal win that sent the Raptors to their first NBA final in their 24th season — will go down in the annals as a breakthrough worthy of witness and remembrance.