TORONTO • They have been prominent in the crowd at the Scotiabank Arena all season, the DeMar DeRozan jerseys. DeRozan didn’t leave when he had the chance, and he didn’t come back as a villain, like so many before him. DeRozan played well on the night, scoring an efficient 23 points and repeatedly finding wide-open teammates for easy shots. Now, the Toronto Raptors are off to find out if that most difficult of transactions was worth it. It also felt a lot like the whole of Raptors fandom imagining, for a minute, what might have been.

Source: National Post February 23, 2019 18:36 UTC