The Raptors will play their first home playoff game in Toronto since June 2019 next Thursday night.
After opening their best-of-seven NBA first-round series in Philadelphia with Game 1 on Saturday and Game 2 on Monday, Toronto will host Game 3 at the Scotiabank Arena on Thursday, April 21 at 8 p.m., the league announced.
Game 4 will be in Toronto on Saturday, April 23 at 2 p.m.
This will be the third series between the Eastern Conference rivals. The Sixers won a seven-game conference semifinal in 2001, while the Raptors won a seven-game conference semifinal in 2019 on the Kawhi Leonard four-bounce buzzer beater on their way to the only NBA championship in franchise history.