After last month’s most recent COVID worry-streak left a number of NBA games — including two against the Chicago Bulls — wiped clean from the slate, the league managed to squeeze in a number of back-to-backs for Toronto to replay those three games, versus the Bulls and Magic, which were cancelled.
Toronto faces DeMar DeRozan for the second time this season, with two more matchups incoming. Game One, played all the way back in October, was a loss and it sparked Toronto’s first five-game win streak for the year. In that initial matchup, DeRozan made a couple triples almost to spite Nick Nurse, and it remains one of just a handful of times this season that DeMar has made multiple threes in a game.