Ready, set, go.
Feel free to officially begin wondering and worrying about your Toronto Raptors.
Until Thursday night, of course, with no scheduled beginning of the next NBA season, there was no reason to be too concerned about the challenging issues facing the Raptors. Not that Masai Ujiri, Bobby Webster and the rest of the crew haven’t been working hard and planning but, without a deadline to shoot for, it was more or less an academic exercise.
Well, now it’s for real. The league and the players association agreed Thursday night, tentatively, to begin the 2020-21 season on Dec.