If there was a worrying undercurrent to the Raptors’ triumphant Game 1 win over the Wizards, it was the absence of Fred VanVleet. Injured in the last game of the season after ramming into the Heat’s Bam Adebayo (a large concrete slab of a man), VanVleet’s been listed as out with a bruised right shoulder. There are whispers that it’s more of a concussion, what with how woozy Fred looked in the moment, but that’s not the official party line.
Needless to say, on Toronto’s off day on Sunday, coach Dwane Casey was asked for an update regarding the Raps’ sixth man.