After a summer that included informal team mini-camps in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, a training camp in Victoria, B.C., and five preseason games spread across five different cities (including Edmonton and Montreal), Toronto Raptors basketball is finally back. And yes, I'm talking about real basketball.
As the Raptors get set to open their season at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct. 19, the regular season is upon us. But in order to look forward we must first look back, parsing through the (largely meaningless) preseason in order to figure out the age old question: what actually matters here?