Players' outrageous locker room celebration with hundreds of bottles of ...

Seventy-three years after the Toronto Huskies hosted the first NBA game in league history, the city's current franchise, the Raptors, pulled out a dramatic Game 6 victory over the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors - causing an eruption of chaotic celebrations to break out, both in the locker room and in the streets.

Players from Canada’s only NBA team, including Normal Powell, Serge Ibaka and Pascal Siakam were seen donning scuba gear as they poured champagne into their mouths and over their heads as part of tumultuous locker room celebrations to cap off their historic victory.

Hundreds of bottles of fizz were seen strewn across the floor in the festivity’s wake as the Raptors squad took tuns holding the Larry O’Brien Trophy, but the party didn’t stop at the door.

The streets of Toronto provided a similar picture of pandemonium, as hundreds-of-thousands of fans descended on the city center bellowing chants of ‘We the North!’ - a feverous display not seen in the Canadian capital for more than two decades, when the Toronto Blue Jays last won the MLB World Series title in 1993.

Jersey-clad friends and strangers hugged one another in Yonge and Dundas Square. Others climbed street-lights and scaled small buildings to have their overjoyed voices heard loudest among the rapturous din.

One wheel-chair bound Raptors fanatic was raised above the head of the crowd and surfed over the sea of elated faces as fireworks erupted in the skies above.

But the joyous scenes didn’t come without chaos. The windshields of two police cars were caved in by fans clambering atop, as was a city bus.

In the early hours of Friday morning, paramedics rushed a man to hospital with life threatening injuries after he was shot just north of the city center square, where thousands of fans remained long into the morning.

The man was said to be conscious and breathing throughout the ordeal and it’s not yet clear whether the shooting was directly related to the celebrations.

An update on his condition or identity has not yet been issued, but multiple people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Another fan set off fireworks in the subway at Bay Station shortly after the final buzzer. Nobody was injured, officials say, but there was a 14-minute delay in service. 

Meanwhile, Toronto-native rapper Drake, who was a longtime fixture courtside throughout the playoffs, was seen celebrating long into the night, even promising fans two new songs on Friday.

THE CHIP TO THE 6!!!!!!!!!!!! SEE YOU 2MRW WITH A 2 PACK LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,' Drake said on Instagram.

The party will continue on Monday-morning at Nathan Phillips Square where the Raptors will parade their finals trophy around the city, set to begin at 10am. 

Thursday’s dramatic conclusion put the finishing touches to a remarkable 4-2 series upset at Oakland's Oracle Arena that denied the Warriors a fourth championship in five years.

Facing elimination and playing without former MVP Kevin Durant, the Warriors' season and dynasty was on the line Thursday night in Oakland after star Klay Thompson went down with a knee injury against the Toronto Raptors.

Thompson left the game, then limped out of the tunnel and returned to the court - drawing raucous cheers - so he could shoot his free throws, allowing him to possibly return after being evaluated. He made both shots, the Warriors then took a foul a few seconds later and Thompson retreated toward the locker room again. A few minutes later, the word came: Thompson was done for the night.

As his agent told ESPN , Thompson appears to have torn his ACL, which would be a devastating diagnosis for the soon-to-be free agent.

The Warriors now enter an off-season with two of their top players can hit the open market, albeit with significant injuries.

'A lot of bad breaks in the finals, to be honest,' Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. 'Like us, they kept on playing. We just had to keep on playing no matter who was out there. And I think they were super intense high-level games and both teams desperately trying to win.'

Announcer and former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy quickly pointed out that Green's foul was not dirty, but an honest effort to block Thompson's layup.

Despite the injuries, the Warriors held a slim 88-86 lead entering the fourth quarter and had a legitimate chance to push the series to a seventh game before succumbing to the Raptors down the stretch.

Golden State still had a chance, even in the final seconds. Stephen Curry missed a three-pointer with about six seconds left that would have given the Warriors the lead. The actual ending came several minutes later after long delays following a technical on Golden State for calling a time-out it didn't have and then a long review of a foul on Toronto's inbounds pass with less than a second left.

The Raptors didn't mind waiting.

And for the Warriors, it just prolonged the inevitable.

Thompson finished with 30 points, even missing the fourth quarter. Andre Iguodala scored 22 points, Curry had 21 and Draymond Green finished with 11 points, 19 rebounds and 13 assists.

It wasn't enough.

Fred VanVleet rescued the Raptors down the stretch with his dazzling shooting from deep to score 22 points with five 3s off the bench, while Leonard wound up with 22 points. Kyle Lowry scored the game's first eight points and finished with 26 in all to go with 10 assists and seven rebounds.

It was a sad farewell to Oracle for so many reasons. The 2,070th and final game in that building that the Warriors called home for 47 seasons. The first game since Durant had surgery to repair his ruptured Achilles. The last loss of the season. The end of the quest for three straight championships. And if all that emotion wasn't enough, now there's fear for Thompson's future.

Thompson will be a free agent on June 30. The Warriors have said they want to keep him, and they likely still will. But if he has a major knee issue now that would be on top of the injury that will likely keep Durant - another probable free-agent-in-waiting, maybe the biggest domino that will fall this summer to start an expected player-movement bonanza - off the court for all of next season.

The irony with Thompson's injury is he doesn't get hurt.

Thompson one of the most durable players in the league. He strained a hamstring earlier in these finals and missed one game. He may have done a number on his knee on Thursday and was still lobbying to stay in the game.

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