The Toronto Raptors were embarrassed in their loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals. Among the list of things that went wrong for Toronto was a guy by the name of LeBron James who routinely broke down the Raptors’ defense for easy scores.
But despite LeBron’s dominance against Toronto, Raptors’ center Bismack Biyombo says he is not afraid of the multiple-time MVP:
Is Biyombo afraid of LeBron? "No I'm not & I will never be. I'm never afraid of human beings. I always joke with Kyle, I'm afraid of lions"
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) May 19, 2016
Of course, one cannot expect Biyombo to say anything else. The teams are still competing and the big-man has consistently been the member of the Raptors who has shown the most fight in the playoffs, sometimes to a detrimental level.
The fact of the matter, however, is that the Raptors should be very afraid of LeBron at this point. They made the bold decision of guarding him one-on-one in game one to stay home on shooters and that ended incredibly poorly as no one could guard the Cavaliers’ forward.
A lion may be more frightening than James, but for Bismack Biyombo and the Raptors, LeBron is who they should be afraid of as they come dangerously close to seeing their season ended at his hands. In this case, LeBron is the lion and the Raptors are more like gazelles.
