It’s a new era of Raptors basketball (or perhaps just the preseason) when the head coach of the team offers up the starting lineup without much struggle. New head coach Nick Nurse was asked, almost tentatively, who the starters would be, and he just rhymed them off: “Delon, Danny, Norm, Pascal, and Serge.”
Before quickly amending: “...I think.”
Ah, there we are. The Raptors are back in Toronto today for their lone preseason stop in the newly named Scotiabank Arena. There are a lot of new things going on here — a new coach, a new stadium name, some new accoutrements around the arena (Union Station is still under construction, but we can’t have everything).