After a disappointing 2024-25 season in which the Toronto Raptors won just 30 games, they entered the 2025-26 campaign with a stern focus to make the leap as a collective. After all, they have one of the most expensive payrolls in the league, and they brought in Brandon Ingram back in February to add to their burgeoning core. And now, the Raptors have indeed been doing what they set out to do, as their 140-110 win over the Washington Wizards on Friday night's NBA Cup action moves them to 11-5 on the season.

That 11-5 record has the Raptors in second place in the Eastern Conference at the moment, which has them surpassing even the most optimistic of expectations of them heading into the new campaign. Just to make things even better for the Raptors, this latest win over the Wizards

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