Ah yes, the ol’ “should they blow it up?” conundrum. Such a constant and bedevilling question. Kevin O’Connor of the Ringer wrote a thoughtful piece on Monday — with quotes from Masai Ujiri and everything! — reviewing the path forward for the Raptors. They’re a good team, as the headline suggests, but perhaps, alas, not great. Surely not great enough to best LeBron, or deal with the terror machine in Golden State. And so the implicit question: why bother?
One supposes the Raptors should be pleased to have been written about at all, such has been their place in the NBA universe for the past two decades.