The Utah Jazz visit Scotiabank Arena tonight to face the Toronto Raptors. Both teams may be without their starting point guards due to lingering back problems. Kyle Lowry has already been officially ruled out , while Ricky Rubio‘s status won’t be determined until game time.
The Jazz are in the thick of the Western Conference playoff race, which seems like a silly thing to write when they are currently in eleventh place. Yet matters are so close out there that any team which puts together a four-game win streak can leapfrog five teams.