It’s not often that an NBA arena is electrified in December, giving fans a playoff-type of excitement in their gut. On Sunday night, in an interconference matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Toronto Raptors, fans at Scotiabank Arena were awarded the rare opportunity to feel a type of energy that is typically only felt in the spring when the playoffs roll around.
Even without two of the NBA’s top stars in Luka Doncic and Pascal Siakam out of the game due to their respective injuries, the secondary stars on each team – Kyle Lowry for the Raptors, and Kristaps Porzingis for the Mavericks, provided an all-time classic contest.