Here’s everything you need to get ready for the Toronto Raptors to take on the Washington Wizards.
SCHEDULE & COMPARISON
GAME 1 PREVIEW
- The regular Gameday is in its proper place.
PREVIEW CONTENT
- Will and I broke the series down on the Weekly Extra podcast.
- Our entire staff gave their opinions in the annual RR roundtable.
- We hit Truth About It up with 10 questions to get Washington’s side of things.
- We hit up writers from outside Toronto and Washington and looked at Vegas lines and model odds for some additional perspective.
- I answered a bunch of questions in a playoff mailbag.
- I performed a deep data and matchups dive.
- Cooper went deep breaking the matchup down in the film room.
- Practice news and notes from Thursday.
- Practice news and notes from Friday.
ELSEWHERE
- Over at The Athletic, I wrote about OG Anunoby’s up-and-down season and why he feels he’s peaking at the right time defensively.
- I also wrote about Lorenzo Brown turning a G League MVP season into a playoff roster spot.
- Eric Koreen and I previewed the series on our podcast.
- You can get 40% off an Athletic subscription during the Raptors’ playoff run.
- At the New Yorker, Alex Wong wrote about the anxieties of Raptors fans in the playoffs.
- At theScore, William Lou wrote about the Raptors’ struggle for legitimacy.
- Will also wrote about trying to contain Bradley Beal.
- A good look at Kyle Lowry’s importance to the culture reset from Jacob Mack at Raptors HQ.
- Series previews from outside the Raptors bubble from John Schuhmann, Mark Deeks, and Nylon Calculus.
POLL
Call it.
