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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan.

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I am Mike Lupica of MLB.com, the New York Daily News, and my new book, Robert B. Parker's

Fool's Paradise out this week. Mr. Ryan, we have been talking for weeks about how something

great happens every night in the NBA playoffs, and something really great happened last night,

a double overtime game by a proud champion

who refuses to die against the Boston Celtics.

And by that, I mean the Toronto Raptors,

imprincipally a tough veteran named Kyle.

Lowry, Bob, it is now looking as if one three-point shot with

0.5 on the clock the other day may cost your Celtics their season. Oh very

very definitely it could happen and you know I when I say it's something they're going to lose sleepover forever

because it was a miscommunication to leave a guy anybody open that that much and you should

plus once again who made that pass Mike oh yeah it was Kyle Larry yeah throwing over a 7-6 guy

was that a good shot he made last night to follow the step back, Bob? I guess that was a

good shot, right? How about, I mean, the juxtaposition between their star guard and, quote,

our star guard, you know, last night, Kimba just, you know, that's why I'm, game seven is going to be so

fascinating. Kemba Walker, you talk about somebody that probably is on edge. I mean, he's got to make up for that thing.

But one thing that the Raptors have had, and I've been saying this for three years for the Celtics,

what they don't have, and it's very costly, they do not have anyone who can come off the bench,

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