Toronto Raptors (43-16)
The Toronto Raptors have had as close to a perfect last few months than a team can have in the NBA. This is a team that acquired Kawhi Leonard, one of the NBA’s best two-way players when healthy, during the summer and Marc Gasol last week at the NBA Trade Deadline.
They’ve done everything in their power to take this team to the next level, and it’s going to be interesting to see if that’s enough for Kawhi to want to re-sign with the team during the off-season.
The Raptors will be one of a handful teams that will be favored to come out of the East, and will have a real shot to emerge as a threat to the Warriors (assuming they come out of the West).
Grade: A