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4 hours agoGameday: Raptors @ Celtics, April 5th
The Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors are in contrasting forms ahead of their potential playoff matchup.
Trading their 2026 first-round pick would have been a sign that the front office fully trusted this current core. They chose not to. As mentioned, there could have been a few reasons for that, but it makes one wonder how much trust the front office really has in the core of Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, RJ Barrett, and Immanuel Quickley, and most of the pieces around it.
It's very possible the trade deadline just happened a day early. Darius Garland, James Harden, Jaren Jackson jr., Anthony Davis, Trae Young, Keon Ellis, Coby White, Jared McCain, Anfernee Simons, and far more have all been dealt already. Are there dominoes left to fall? The Domantas Sabonis rumours seem to be cooling, while the Toronto Raptors have already moved beneath the luxury-tax line and found a rim-rolling big (though undersized). Is Ochai Agbaji and Trayce Jackson-Davis all?
Ingram reels in a crazy looking rebound over Anthony Gill, and kicks it to Jamal Shead, and the ball touches two more Raptors' hands before finding the bottom of the net in a nice and fast-paced mini 2014 beautiful game San Antonio Spurs-like possession. Ja'Kobe Walter has been shooting the three really well lately, 41.4 percent beyond the arc, which is funnily higher than his overall field goal percentage at 38.1 percent in seven games post All-Star break.