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Playoff Picture: Toronto Raptors

By Luke Duffy

Mar 15, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry (7) reacts against the Portland Trail Blazers at Air Canada Canada Centre. The Trail Blazers beat the Raptors 113-97. Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 15, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry (7) reacts against the Portland Trail Blazers at Air Canada Canada Centre. The Trail Blazers beat the Raptors 113-97. Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports /
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May 4, 2014; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; We the North tshirts on the seats fro Toronto Raptors fans before game seven of the first round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs against the Brooklyn Nets at the Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports
May 4, 2014; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; We the North tshirts on the seats fro Toronto Raptors fans before game seven of the first round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs against the Brooklyn Nets at the Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports /

For the Toronto Raptors, the reality of being a pretender to the throne appears to have caught up with them. They entered last season’s playoffs as a franchise on the up swing, and their “We The North” campaign was a stroke of PR genius. Since then though, while things haven’t been all bad, this team hasn’t kicked on like it should have.

A nice start to the season, complete with Louis Williams gaining early consideration for Sixth Man of the Year honors, the wheels began to come off when DeMar DeRozan went down with an injury in late November. He came back, and things got a little better, but since the All-Star break it’s been grim. So bad in fact, that the Raptors have one of the worst records in the entire league since the break.

Hardly a momentum builder heading into the playoffs.

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