For the second time this year, the Raptors will face old friend and foe Vince Carter on a Sunday afternoon at 3:30pm. If recent history is due to repeat itself, the Raptors will emerge victorious. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. This Raptors’ season has been a whirlwind of surprises, from random Lowry surges and halts to the young bench’s emergence as an often prosperous yet equally puzzling enigma. Nobody knows how the Raptors will perform on any given day, but let’s analyze this game anyway.
The Kings are, in a way, a bizarro-world version of the Raptors.