Well, thank goodness. It’s finally time to start prepping for another Toronto Raptors playoff excursion.
With one final game standing in the way of the Raptors and postseason basketball, Nick Nurse elected to rest Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka for the game in Minnesota. The Timberwolves were without Karl-Anthony Towns, most notably, among others.
Trailing by two at the end of the first quarter, the Raptors and the Timberwolves both shot 45-percent in the opening 12 minutes, but the T’Wolves had the upper hand. The second quarter, however, would blow the game wide open.