CHARLOTTE, N.C.—It’s all sweetness and light when you’re rolling like the Toronto Raptors are rolling, and the joking and fun times continue unabated.
After another lopsided win, another victory so thorough that the team’s starting five got another entire fourth quarter off, the good-natured jabs flowed freely.
“Ah, I’m tired of them,” Kyle Lowry said of the team’s backup group that helped the Raptors to a 123-103 win over the Charlotte Hornets here Sunday afternoon. “Freddy (VanVleet) came to us and told us ‘way to go bench mob,’ talking about us. We the bench mob right now.