PORTLAND, OREGON - JANUARY 11: Pascal Siakam #43 of the Toronto Raptors (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
The Toronto Raptors might be in the middle of their longest sustained streak of quality basketball in 2020-21, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are still a fringe playoff team at this juncture, with the unusual 2020 offseason really doing a number on how Masai Ujiri was able to build this team.
The Raptors had to let some key contributors go in free agency, all the while trying and failing to potentially add another star to complement the dynamic inside-out duo of Pascal Siakam and Kyle Lowry.