Game Thread: Toronto Raptors vs. Los Angeles Clippers

Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty ImagesThe value of these last four games, starting with tonight’s contest against the Clippers, is to see how Toronto’s most inexperienced players handle the increased workload. If you’re rookie Malachi Flynn, can you run the Raptors’ offense? If you’re Freddie Gillespie, can you be counted on to help coordinate the team’s backline defense? If you’re Jalen Harris, can you show you belong on an NBA court as a full-time rotation player? There are more questions, and the hope is that these games will start to give us some sense of answers.

There’s not much more to this contest. The Raptors are out of the playoffs, can’t move up (e.g. by losing more) in the…