PHILADELPHIA—It has been a constant Raptors trait — something they should be very proud of — that someone rises to the occasion when things look the most bleak.
More often than not, in the absence of a player or two or three, someone pops a big game for them, does something a bit out of the ordinary, makes the extraordinary contribution that somehow gets them over the hump.
And today more than any other day in this long, confounding but entirely entertaining season, the big wonder is: Who it will be this time?