Because it’s placed smack dab in the middle of the NBA’s tumbleweed season, schedule-release day is much ballyhooed. Ultimately, it’s an uninteresting blip that you probably won’t think about again until the 2017-18 season is upon us — and even then, it really only makes sense to fret over the schedule one week at a time, at most. Things change; teams suffer injuries and veer in and out of cold slumps. What might look like a rocky part of the schedule on August 14th could be a cream puff come January.
Probably the only productive thing that Schedule Day does offer is a road map for fans looking to attend Raptors games this season.