Would you believe this total is actually fair and good and nice to the Raptors?
Let it not be said that the Raptors are not teetering on the brink of something good, maybe great. Sure, they’re not going to win the title next year — not with the hydra-headed Warriors in the west and Goliath Lebron in the east — but they may be about to embark on a multi-year mission of sustained success. Could you have envisioned that back in say, 1997? Or 2005? Or 2011?
Over at ESPN yesterday, the brainiacs in the computer department put down their first round of early projections for the Eastern Conference.