DENVER—The Raptors will fly from Toronto to Denver to Phoenix to San Francisco and then to Salt Lake City in the next 11 days to play five games against teams of varying levels of skill and accomplishment. They undertake the rather daunting task beaten up, as they always seem to be, and riding the first two-game losing streak since Santa Claus left presents under the tree.
It’ll be fun.
Not fun in the sense of jokes and hilarity and silly charter airplane pranks but fun because it will afford them a better chance to concentrate solely on basketball for an extended period, and that can relaxing and important.