PHILADELPHIA They’ve been figuring it out as they’ve gone along all year: lurching from one absence to another, one roster iteration to another, with a rotation often in flux from night to night.
The stakes are immeasurably higher today than in some random regular-season week, but the circumstances for the Raptors aren’t.
They go into Monday’s Game 2 of the playoffs looking at yet another makeshift rotation after their best unit was decimated by injuries in Saturday’s Game 1 blistering at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers.
Scottie Barnes had an MRI on his left ankle, Thad Young had an MRI on his left thumb, and Gary Trent Jr.