Watching the Toronto Raptors these days is to witness an exercise in survival. They tried to score just enough points to get out of town before the posse arrived against Portland on Tuesday and failed. Then they scratched out one of the most meaningful meaningless wins you will ever see in Charlotte on Wednesday.
It is a testament, given almost every night by the injury-thinned defending champs. Nick Nurse is mixing and matching and occasionally admonishing. (Welcome to the barrel, Terence Davis, who responded like an apprentice champion Wednesday night.