PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - DECEMBER 29: Head coach Nick Nurse of the Toronto Raptors speaks with Fred VanVleet #23 (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)
This Toronto Raptors season is a rarity for an innumerable number of reasons, but one of the strangest happenings from this campaign is the fact that Nick Nurse, Fred VanVleet, and the rest of the squad might be better off trying to miss the postseason for the first time in almost a decade.
The Raptors, a team that won one game in the entire month of March, is regularly sitting key players in favor of the likes of Paul Watson, and is currently in possession of a 23-34 record, is just a half-game away from the postseason, as the NBA decided to create a play-in tournament that gives the No.