Paul George didn’t take the shot. And then Drake took a shot.
After the Raptors held on for a 102-99 victory over the Pacers on Tuesday night when Solomon Hill’s 3-pointer was ruled after the buzzer, the hip-hop star and Toronto superfan posted a Photoshopped picture of a crying George to Instagram.
screengrab via Instagram“3 – 2…I knew you were scared,” Drake wrote in the caption, which was accompanied by a smiley face. He deleted the post after roughly an hour.
The Pacers had the ball under the Raptors’ basket with 2.7 seconds left. Monta Ellis inbounded to George, who was double-team and dished off to Hill. Pacers players threw their arms up in celebration when Hill’s shot from the left side went through the net, but video replay confirmed that the shot came too late.
The Raptors overcame 39 points from George and a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter, getting 34 points from DeMar DeRozan and 14 from Kyle Lowry.
Drake was animated as usual in his front-row seat as the second-seeded Raptors took a 3-2 lead in the first-round series. The Raptors can advance by beating the Pacers in Indiana on Friday night.
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