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Toronto or Boston: Who’s really the deepest team in the East?

It’s time for round two of the heavyweight tilt many NBA observers feel will be the championship bout in the Eastern Conference.

The Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics are in many ways mirrors of each other. Both are surprisingly young teams, both have been built with the idea of flexibility and position-less basketball in mind, and both are absolutely stocked with useful basketball players.

But who is more stocked?

The narrative seems to be, at least from American media, that the Boston Celtics are the deepest team in the East.