For good or ill, the Toronto Raptors are entrenched in a particularly road-heavy part of their schedule. Tonight’s matchup against the Miami Heat in Florida is their second game on this three-game trip, and then after three at home, eight of their next nine are on the road. All told that’s 11 out of 15 games away from Scotiabank Arena.
Normally that would take a pretty hard toll on a team, but the Raptors, of course, are in a unique situation in that their home games are being played in an empty arena — a situation Nick Nurse said the other day was a pretty tough one.