Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press

The Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors seem to genuinely dislike each other.

The story so far:

Paul Pierce says the Toronto Raptors don’t scare them because they don’t have the “it” factor. Raptors big man Amir Johnson fires back. The Wizards take Game 1, 93-86. They then take a 60-49 lead into halftime in Toronto in Game 2, and Wizards guard Bradley Beal says this:

“[The Raptors] think that we’re some punks. They think that they can push around. But we’re not rolling.”

Beal and the Wizards backed it up and won 117-96 to take an early 2-0 series lead. They’ve got a good head of steam going back to D.C for Game 3.

(Thanks to Ben Celestino for spotting.)