The Phoenix Suns have a 9-20 record. The Raptors, meanwhile, are teetering on the opposite side of the competency spectrum. Equipped with a 17-8 record, Toronto is supposedly one of the best teams in the East — and, for the most part, that is absolutely the case — but they are coming off one of the more frustrating losses in recent memory.
In a Ghost of Christmas Past-type situation, that game may come back to haunt the Raptors when playoff seeding inevitably becomes tight, near the end of the season; favourable matchups may be thwarted due to one abysmal, outlier of a game.