Game Thread: Raptors vs. Hornets updates, TV info & more

Photo by Ron Turenne/NBAE via Getty ImagesThe Hornets were supposed to suck more than this! After losing Kemba and replacing him with no better than the third-best Terry in the league, the Hornets seems destined for the same tier of the East as like, the Knicks.

They still might be just that. Wins over the Bulls, Kings, Warriors, Pacers, Pistons and Knicks don’t exactly preclude them from a nose-dive in the near future. And it may start tonight!

Toronto returns home after a mostly successful and entirely inspiring five-game swing out west. They’re still down Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka and Patrick McCaw, but if Nick Nurse’s Frankenstein ass rotation could pull out wins over the Lakers and Blazers…