What did the Toronto Raptors’ 2024-25 season mean?

When you try to describe something, to truly understand it, what do you start with? Not its qualities, surely. Not what a thing is, but what it means. And there might be no thing with a bigger gap between constitution and meaning than the 2024-25 season of the Toronto Raptors. This season, defined by injured players and lost games, largely went to plan. If you had traveled from today to the past, to the day before the season began, and guaranteed this year to Bobby Webster and Masai Uj