The Raptors have listed Fred VanVleet as questionable* for this afternoon’s matinee matchup with the Knicks.
The Battle of Wits has begun!
Is Nick Nurse the sort of man who would put Fred VanVleet on the injured report to hurt his team’s or the Knicks' chances of winning? Now, a clever man would hurt his own team’s chances because he would know that only a great fool would reach for a play-in position instead of tanking for Victor Wembanyama. We are not great fools so we can clearly not choose that reasoning. But Nurse must have known we were not great fools; he would have counted on it, so we can clearly not choose the reasoning that Fred’s struggles of late would actually help New York win.