Let’s face it, if you watched the Portland Trail Blazers play the Toronto Raptors on April 3rd, 2025 you’re probably kind of a sicko. Neither team is making the playoffs. Neither has much positive to play for. This game exists because it was a line on a schedule. If there were an option to simulate games in an NBA season, the powers that be probably would have taken it. But this is real life, meaning sickos like us actually watched—or in this case, recapped—the game.
Just because this game progressed like 81 others in the Trail Blazers’ season doesn’t mean that we have to treat it like one, however.