The Toronto Raptors are tanking on a galaxy-brain level right now.
While other teams rest their players with phantom injuries (more on Utah below), the Raptors have turned to a much more subtle approach: in-game tanking!
Toronto has held a fourth-quarter lead in four of its six games since the All-Star break, with double-digit fourth-quarter leads in three of those four. The results of those games: overtime loss, regulation victory (God help you, Phoenix), overtime loss, regulation victory (that could have gone to overtime).
After leading by double digits late, the Raptors try to give the game away for the second straight game but Franz Wagner botches the game-tying layup
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