It would be understandable for Raptors fans to be smacking their lips at the prospects of the next week.
Four games. Three at home. No back-to-backs. No games against teams that would be considered among the NBA elite.
It’s a dream schedule for a Toronto team that has just come off six of seven games against some of the toughest competition in the Eastern Conference and a grind of a schedule that ended up being 12 games in 20 days.
Pick off the next four in order — Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Boston — and the Raptors could head into the faux all-star break riding the wave of a solid winning streak, likely pushing up against the top three of the Eastern Conference.