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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3856237, member: 1969"]
Toronto has certainly stretched injuries and had rest periods since the trade deadline, although not nearly as bad as other teams.    Anunoby / Trent / Lowry.    Boucher is legit long term injury.

They have still had at least 2 of their starters in basically every game and actually upgraded the center position by sitting the human tank Aaron Baynes (aka worst center in NBA history) and bringing in Khem Birch.

What is odd though is that the NBA essentially fined the Raptors for the resting -- didn't here them doing that to other teams.

The one player they have rested the most if Kyle Lowry, who plays about a 1/3 of the games.   As an aside the 76ers (Morey) are really going to regret lowballing the Raptors for him after the other teams (Heat / Lakers) dropped out of the trade discussions.   If Morey had simply offered a first+Maxey it would be done -- it has been speculated he offered only 1 piece or even only multiple second rounders.   At one point the discussion was whether it should be 2 or 3 pieces.

I suppose Masai + Morey are both to blame for not getting a deal that seemed fairly easy to do given the Sixers salary fillers.    But the 76ers are going to regret it more since they are the one in position to win the NBA title this year.
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