Billing a game as a playoff preview is an easy way to drum up some excitement. For the Toronto Raptors, though, many of their games in the last two weeks of the season could be billed that way.
After all, the Raptors are locked into the second seed in the East, but down below there’s a flurry — Detroit, Brooklyn, Miami, and Orlando sit just 1.5 games apart from each other with five or less games to go. It’s a wild thing to see, and just adds to the uncertainty around what’s a playoff preview and what’s not.