It’s a good guess that it’ll be hard to frame anything as a crisis in Raptorland during the first round of these playoffs.
Among the top handful of upper-tier seeds in the NBA playoffs, the Raptors’ early moments in the playoff bubble have been uniquely uneventful. They’re carrying a 2-0 series lead into Friday’s Game 3 against the not-so-scary Brooklyn Nets. And they seem healthy and happy enough that it makes you wonder if a former acquaintance named Kawhi Leonard, silently observing Luka Doncic’s prodigiousness and teammate Paul George’s playoff demons, ever kicks himself for choosing the West’s decidedly rougher road.