As is now frustrating tradition, ESPN has completed yet another round of ranking NBA players in advance of the coming 2019-20 season. Well, actually, they haven’t quite finished it yet — the top 10 will be presented tomorrow — but for our intents and purposes, which overlap with that of the Raptors, the list is done.
Which means all there is left to do is to comment on the decisions that went into placing each Raptor on the list, and the complaining about or praising said placement. This too is another annual tradition of NBA rankings and the one we take the most delight (or, yes, frustration) in.