It’s got to be peak-Raptors for the team to both mathematically reach the number one spot in the East and get gassed up by the NBA’s press, only to disappoint upon arrival. I don’t mean to open on such a down note here, but I also want to insist that I’m not mad, I’m actually laughing.
And, oh yeah, DeMar DeRozan is the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for December 18th to Christmas Day. Not bad, even if, hahaha, DeRozan just got finished playing one of his worst games of the season, a 3-of-16 clunker during which he was somehow outplayed by the ghost of Wesley Matthews (and J.