Give the Raptors credit for this much: In a league where it’s not uncommon for players to air their grievances publicly, Toronto’s NBA team hid its inner strife awfully well this past season.
Sure, they couldn’t hide the terrible on-court chemistry that was obvious to anyone who tuned in. Even team president Masai Ujiri couldn’t sugar-coat the ugliness of the product, calling his team out for “selfish” play at the trade deadline before acknowledging at season’s end that he, like a lot of us, didn’t even enjoy watching his own team play.
Still, when you look back … there was that January halftime flare-up between sophomore star Scottie Barnes and forward Thaddeus Young.