Happy New Year everyone!
Now that we got that out of the way, it’s time to not change not just the calendar from 2024 to 2025 but Brooklyn’s roster. D’Angelo Russell, last seen battling Ben Simmons in the opening round of the 2019 playoffs, will return to the black-and-white. He along with Maxwell Lewis, the young wing, will be available for the first time following Sunday’s blockbuster trade that sent Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton to Los Angeles for Russell, Lewis and three future second rounders.
They will face a Raptors team that of late has been historically bad — horrible actually — in losing 11 straight games.