They’re not exactly the Bad Boys of a bygone era, but one of the more interesting things the Raptors have developed over the course of the NBA season is an edge.
They play hard, they can play physical and they don’t give an inch, traits the rest of the league seems to be noticing.
“We usually just get a lot of complaining that we’re hacking and fouling — and we usually are hacking and fouling,” Fred VanVleet said this week. “Every team that we’ve played has definitely been complaining about that.
“So I’ll take that as a compliment.