Hey all, it’s our first Power Rankings summary of the new year. A lot has happened in 2016, including the loss — for now — of our beloved polls. This means the original purpose of this column (tracking the level of disrespect of the Raptors) has been sort of short-circuited. Worse things have happened, but here we are.
Anyway, the Raptors are undefeated in 2017, which is nice. But they lost their last two games of 2016, and watched as Patrick Patterson — easily the third most important player on the team — went down with a knee injury.