Finally! That’s the word that’s surely been used the most around the Toronto Raptors in the past week. Finally the COVID outbreak is behind them. Finally they can field a real NBA team. Finally Scottie Barnes came back. And finally... the Raptors had a fully healthy roster!
In some ways, it feels like we've been waiting for that since... I don’t know, the 2019 NBA Finals? Heck, even then, OG Anunoby was hurt. The team deftly handled the long-term absences of Norman Powell, Marc Gasol and Fred VanVleet in 2019-20 (along with dozens of minor injuries), then fell victim to COVID last season.