In so many ways, 2019 feels like so much more than a year ago. Every once in a while though, some familiarity peaks through, like beams of sun through the clouds.
As the Raptors head into their second-round matchup with the Boston Celtics, there’s a tinge of the feeling that met them in late April of 2019 when they got set to tangle with the Philadelphia 76ers. The Celtics are a tough opponent and in the same way that Philly proved to be the Raptors’ greatest challenge in 2019, you wonder if the Celtics could be the same kind of dangerous, tough to bring down opponent this summer in the bubble in Florida.