If it was easy, it wouldn’t be as much fun.
Pushed to the limits by a hard-playing Brooklyn Nets team, the Toronto Raptors escaped the Barclays Center with a 116-102 victory on Tuesday night that was truly well earned.
The Raptors overcame a torrid Nets start to reach the 50-win plateau for the third straight season. They ran their current win streak to nine games and moved four full games ahead of the second-place Boston Celtics in the NBA’s Eastern Conference.
Fred VanVleet sparked a 15-0 Raptors run in the third quarter that got them back in the game, and C.