After a 112-96 victory against Cleveland last night, Toronto is now just one game behind the 10th-place Washington Wizards — with 11 games left in the season.
After a brutal March in which they won just one game, followed by several games in mid-April in which four of Toronto’s starters were out either with injury or rest, the direction of the team was trending downwards. Despite sitting Kyle Lowry and a slew of other starters for multiple games — whether to recover from the hectic schedule or to increase draft odds — the Raptors still managed to stay afloat.