And just like that, the restarted NBA regular season is almost over. The Raptors played the bulk of their summer schedule over the past week — a total of four games, with victories in three of them. They’ve got one more contest to look forward to, as it were, a showdown with the Nuggets on Friday. Still, Toronto is locked into the East’s two-seed now and are all set to play the Brooklyn Nets in the first round, which starts on August 17.
As goes tradition for my Thursday column series, we’ll wrap up Bubble vs.