How much money would you have bet that Kawhi Leonard would have knocked down the second free throw?
“A lot. That would have been my guess,” said Kevin Harlan, the man who called Game 7 of last year’s Raptors-76ers series on TNT, with a laugh on this week’s episode of Raptors Reasonablists. “That would have been what you thought would’ve happened.”
After catching the inbound pass and promptly being fouled by J.J. Redick, Leonard had a chance to put the Raptors up by three points with just 10 seconds remaining in the deciding game of the Eastern Conference semifinal. That is a situation that can still go sideways with just a modicum of bad luck or poor strategy, but the Philadelphia 76ers had no timeouts left. They would have had to get the ball up the court quickly just to get off a decent attempt to tie the game, and the Raptors would have had an opportunity to foul the 76ers, giving their opponents two free throws and a…
