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.)