What are your thoughts on the Raptors winning their first NBA Championship?

Raptors this season in Oracle “Undefeated...never lost”

Serge Jeremy Lin and Eric Moreland all won a ring before Westbrook and harden

Congratulations to the Raptors and their fans along with Kawhi winning Finals MVP. You guys deserve it #respect 🇨🇦✊🏽🏆

People forget Raptors playoffs run has been tough long road they lost all their first games in the East down 2-0 vs Bucks then won 4 straight

Warriors still had 4 All Stars on the court no excuses.

Raptors were injured too. Kawhi at 75%, Anunoby out, Lowry with an injured hand, Siakam leg. Raptors just the better team

Lowry was big early!! I feel he set the tone and gave his team the confidence they needed for the close out.

Siakam did have that important late bucket to go up 3 but the very final plays of this playoffs were Kawhi's: - Curry three = "NOPE." - rebound = "BOARD MAN GETS PAID." - free throws = "BUCKET. BUCKET."

The Raptors are the Champs enough of the what if’s.

Thank you KAWHI ,Thank you RAPTORS for all the great MEMORIES and Championship you deserved to CANADA 🏆🙏

Kyle Lowry won a ring before Chris Paul

This is all very nice, but what really matters is Linsanity got a ring last night He had the last laugh against the New York Knicks, who never offered him a contract Linsanity has a ring. The Knicks have hairy, sweaty balls.

Thank you Nick and Cris. The Raptors beat the Warriors 6 times (out of 8 meetings) this season. The Raptors have a better match up against the Warriors than most other teams. Don't take this away from how well the Raptors have played in the playoffs. They continued to upset the "favourites" (ie. Bucks, Warriors, 76ers) and did it all under the radar. When most US media doubted the Raptors, they continued to fight against adversity. This is the strangest NBA Final series where there was no "home court advantage". Both teams actually played better on the road (except Raptor's Game 1 win). I think it's the expectation and pressure that got to the players at home court. In any event, this is a collective effort from the Raptors. Everyone contributed to each of the series and each game specifically. Gasol's addition to the team was invaluable. He was excellent in the first three series, but less effective in the finals series due to the style of play the Warriors do (they never post up!). Since Game 4 of the Bucks series, VanVleet has been shooting three's like daggers. Then Siakim showed up in Game 1 and Game 6 of the Warriors. So did Kyle in Game 3, 5 and 6.

CONGRATULATIONS TORONTO AND THEIR WHOLE TEAM. THEY DID THEIR THING AND GOT IT DONE.

Kawhi this playoff run had so many 📸 iconic poster moments: 1️⃣. series-winning buzzer-beating 'the shot', 2️⃣. and 'the squat', 3️⃣. the huge dunk over Embiid, 4️⃣. the huge dunk in Game 4 over Antetokounmpo, 5️⃣. the superman dunk in Game 6 also over Antetokounmpo, 6️⃣. and the superman dunk over Mirotić, 7️⃣. the huge dunk through Harris and Ennis. Honorary mention: wearing goggles to the post-game conference and abandoning his MVP trophy.

Toronto played some of the best defense you might ever see it’s not unlikely that they do the same no matter who plays. 🤫 🔒

This free agency is going to be even crazier now with Klay's injury

Nobody saying KAwhai playing at 70 percent. Dude could barely jump all series

Chris has been the best commentator when it comes to the Raptors, while everybody else making excuses for the Warriors he constantly gives the Raptors due credit

“Boogie Thompson”

Raps are a great ball club. Thanks for validating their victory [sincerely spoken].

First Things First with the best analysis as usual, thanks for bringing it all year. Best outfits also.

Bron rubbing his hands like birdman waiting for the season to start

Great job guys! Couldn’t agree more, can’t discredit the Raps Champions because the Warriors couldn’t stay on the court. We don’t know how this series would have went if everyone was healthy because that book wasn’t written. Congrats on the wonderful year Dub nation & hoping for a speedy recovery for KD and Klay. #WeTheNorth

no excuses Raptors are a better team than the warriors with or without KD and Klay .They met 2 times in the regular season they beat them on both meetings without Kawhi .Their last meeting in Oracle wasn’t even close

And to think their biggest challenge was Philly

So many deserving guys on the Raptors. No top picks, no superstars, just an injured 2-way player and a group of straight grinders. Prayers for the Warriors. They lived up to their name this series and went down like true champions in a war of attrition.

Everyone keep talking about the injuries but fail to mention all the injuries that have benefited the warriors during their run

3 facts from all this: 1. Boogie took a pay cut for a free ring and didn't get it 2. The warriors sacrificed kd health and whole career for a title 3. Kyle and Jeremy Lin won a ring before cp3 and melo

Lebron how you are going to win your championships ? First I'm going to Miami and team up with my best friend and one of the top 3 SGs in the game with a all star Forward and then wait until Cleveland gets a superstar PG and demand they get a all star Forward then come back to Cleveland and GET ONE. So Kawhi how are going to win a Championship? Umm win one with the team that drafts me then win another one with the team that was traded too. Does that make you the best player in the World? Kawhi "I care more about being the best team than the best player."

Patrick McCaw needs to join the Lakers so he can that fourth ring in his fourth season.

Warriors risked their players health for a 3peat.

He said “Boogie Thompson” 🤣🤣😂

Jeremy Lin got a ring before Melo

Congrats Cris Carter! He predicted the Raptors to win the Finals in 7 games. That's good enough. Max Kellerman accurately predicted it in 6. Let's Go Raptors!

Steph curry needs to be held accountable. When lebron lost to golden state without kyrie and Kevin love, the media bashed him. Keep that same energy

Shout out to First Things First - always keeping it REAL.

This is my favourite show over the otherslike SAS and max and Shannon and skip although Shannon is my favourite Skip is just annoying and a hater and SAS is bias af

What people miss is that the Warriors still had more All-Stars than the Raptors and the Raptors still closed them out in their own building.

Raps 4-0 at Oracle and 6-2 versus the Dubs overall this season. Still remember Klay saying "We don't know them" after losing Game 1. Know them now, Klay?

I love Cris and Nick. Instead of talking about the "what ifs" like Stephen A and Skip about the Warriors injuries even after the Raptors JUST WONT championship, Cris and Nick focused on what the Raptors have done to get to this stage. It's a collective effort of the team. Besides the consistent Kawhi, you just didn't know which other Raptor would step-up, but it's the collective effort of the whole other 6-man--rotation roster (Kyle, VanVleet, Gasol, Green, Ibaka and Powell) that really worked for them.

"Boogie Thompson" 😂😂😂 DKM

Team work over individual talent. The Training/ Medical Staff is a critical part of any major sports team. Maintaining a healthy team, starts long before the finals. Toronto had a better Training Staff.

There are lots of champs that won partly because the other team was injured. Like the Warriors a couple of years ago agains the Cavs in 2015.

LETS GO RAPTORS!!!!

Has any other team ever been swept, then come back the next year and win the championship?

This played out perfectly! Zaza intentionally injured Kawhi when Kawhi was on the Spurs. Kawhi makes his return and gets his revenge. It couldn't have been any sweeter than this.

Kawhi is going to stay I just have a feeling he will

END OF A DYNASTY. All you Gsw fans can take a long break it'll be a while before you get another Chip.

Finals 2020 Raptors v Lakers hype 🏀

The Raptors didnt have the most pleasant PlayOff run Almost got eliminated by the 76ers by game 7 Had to make 4 straight Ws against the best team record of the season Had to dethrone the NBA champs of the previous season

Because of the golden state injuries nobodies gonna give the raptors as much credit as they deserve which is disappointing

The biggest thing that can tend to happen to dynasty organizations, like the Warriors, is that after spending SO long on top of your conference, like Golden State has the last 5 years, players wear down over time, and the injury risk increases. You can't realistically expect to maintain NBA Title-caliber basketball like that over a period that long without that happening, and all it takes is for 1 team to get their set, and jump on that. The Toronto Raptors 2018-19 team lived up to their franchise name.....predators. Ones that smelled blood in the water, and sadly for the 29 U.S. NBA clubs, the Raptors went on a Canada-sized feeding frenzy. They ate everything in front of them(minus the #1 seed in the East and also the NBA regular season title, but I digress), and finally captured The Gold after 24 seasons and 25 years of trying. As a fan of the Raps, due to being born in and living in Canada, my tip of the cap does go to the Raps for bagging the title. But I don't give my wag of the finger to the Warriors. There's a reason they got to the NBA Finals, and a reason the Raps had to beat 'The Man' to BE 'The Man'. Thank you to the 2018-19 NBA Western Conference Champion Golden State Warriors for keeping us Raptors fans honest in the whole NBA Finals. Thank you the the 2018-19 NBA Eastern Conference and World Champion Toronto Raptors for finally giving Canada it's Larry O'Brien Trophy, and for handling yourselves with the class you did. The 2018-19 NBA season will be the best in Canadian basketball history for a long time. =)

What if. What if. This is sport - you play with the cards you have; There are no guarantees. If every win were predetermined then it would not be called competition. The raptors fought every round and won fair and square. Please give credit where it is due. They are the current best team in the NBA!!! Bravo!

Pistons was 1 of the good collection of players u forgot to mention that.

After some years of boring finals we got an exiting series

he’s right about the 2016 finals

Raptors had a tough road to the final, 76ers with Embiid, Butler, Simmons, etc and 60 win Bucks with Giannis, Middleton etc.

FVV? Stop, please stop 😂😂 we not callin him that 😂

Why Kawhi is better than KD? He beat steph without Westbrook and beat lebron big 3.. got his second MVP ...KD got his with stephs squad... Facts are facts but nobody wanna say it

guess what... Lowry and Leonard were injured!!

Only show I’ve seen to actually celebrate raptors win

Kawhi got the same amount of rings and fmvp as kd without joining the a 73-9 Warriors team

Best day after- commentary...cuz espn trippin ...they wanna ride GSW so bad ...ppl mad salty

I can't wait to see what Skip Bayless has to say about this

After all those HATERS said about KAWHI esp. SKIP BAYLESS, kawhi has the last laugh.

I find it funny the stance Nick takes now, no one will put a asterisk on Toronto's championship but he wants one on that 2015 warriors. He always brings up the injuries on Cavs that year to protect LeBron but nope not now.

Golden State Warriors 2015-2019 R.I.P. end of a dynasty.

The perfect storm of injuries beat the Warriors and Toronto took advantage like they were suppose to.

I had no idea Tom Green switched to doing basketball commentary with Cris Carter.

I love how Nick says that Vanvleet slowed down Steph even though he averaged 31 but when it comes to 2015 finals when Iggy slowed down Lebron he ignores it.

We’re just supposed to get that the real “decisive advantage” was klay tearing his acl........ good analysis cris cater

I hope this give the small market teams chance to win. Like Indiana, Portland, Memphis and okc great management but I hope star players see the impact of winning in a small city

The MBA 🤣🤣🤣

Risking kd health for a 3xpeat, just not natural.

It was a contribution from Clay

Nick Nurse out coached 4 great experienced coaches... how about them apples. Forget 1 timeout it wasn't a factor at all.

Man, Kawhi is the MVP of the whole playoffs but Lowry could’ve won FMVP.

You wanted Van Fleet benched? NICK ARE YOU #KRAZY? 😂🤣😂🤣😎

Patrick mccaw wasnt ring chasing but he has more rings than kd...get well soon though kd...

I bet nick be debating his way out of getting some yams!!!!!

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Warriors 2015 title: Cavs were injured Warriors 2017 title: Spurs were injured Warriors 2018 title: Rockets were injured But you GS fans keep making excuses, your tears are delicious. LMFAO

After this I cant honestly say I have more respect for lebron. Curry should and could've stepped up but injuries really killed us now we are in his shoes.

just waiting for the "I know kawhi" comment...

*fun times ahead*

Even LeGone stays in Cleveland... Kwahi will check LeGone... Kwahi is a dynasty-killer.

Steph is a great player but fails in the clutch

No one: Gsw fans. tHeY oNlY oNe BeCaUSe hAlF tHe tEaM wAs iNJuRed

Aaaaand Nick Wright predicted wrongly two series in a row. Eastern conference finals, and the NBA Finals. Wow, what an expert.

5:20 oh the hypocrisy. CC didn't apply that statement to the Warriors last year.

Kauai had the team LeBron wish he had that last year in Cleveland

Bring Cris Carter back

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I’m two minutes into this video. And they haven’t even mentioned any of the injuries for Golden State not a single one. Collins reaction to this game is completely different

raptors only had 2 all stars. warriors for the most part iced 4 all stars still at any given time. give me a break

Chris Carter your created some of the narratives. Saying “Kawhi won’t even play a game for the raptors this season”

So Nick Wright will not weep about injuries like after 2015 Finals = "In 2015, Cavs were without 2 of their 3 best players." ... interesting

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