Until this year, this column has only ever existed alongside very good Toronto Raptors teams. Because of that, continuity has been a running theme through its first few editions. A guy earns a ranking one year, returns the following season, and through a mix of stat accumulation and personal growth, he experiences a well-earned bump up the charts the next time I sit down to assemble the rankings and/or question the decisions that led me to this annual slog that I’ll surely be posting anew each September until I’m dead.
Of course, the Raptors were not good this season.