TORONTO — For Fred VanVleet, getting the band back together suited the Toronto Raptors guard just fine.
VanVleet scored a season-high 35 points in the Raptors' 120-105 win against the depleted New York Knicks on Sunday, a game that saw all the significant Raptors healthy and playing together for the first time in the 2021-22 campaign.
The Raptors began the season shorthanded because Pascal Siakam missed the first 10 games as he recovered from off-season shoulder surgery. Then a hip injury took down OG Anunoby for a month, and COVID-19 ripped through the Raptors roster in late December.