A G-League team rolls into Tampa to take on a severely depleted NBA team tonight. I won’t re-hash my feelings on the Thunder, who have only further leaned into their blatant tank job since last the Raptors took them on at the end of March. In fact, OKC hasn’t won a game since they took down the Raptors on 19 days ago. You can read the Game Thread from that night to reacquaint yourself with what I think about Sam Presti and his teardown that didn’t need to happen.
Toronto enters this game missing its four best players due to a combination of rest and nagging injuries — the team’s spotty reporting of which earned a $25,000 slap on the wrist from the NBA yesterday.