First-round NBA playoff opponent doesn’t matter to Raptors, with rotation falling into place and Kyle Lowry’s return inching closer.
With the NBA’s Eastern Conference so muddled with less than two weeks left in the regular season, with teams fighting for seeding and standings changing practically daily, Jonas Valanciunas comes up with some undeniable logic on the topic of trying to play for a specific matchup.
“There is a karma,” the Raptors centre said Friday morning, “and when you’re trying to get a special opponent, like somebody who you think you’re going to beat, they come out swinging and s--- happens.