Let's be honest

The Raptors won't make the playoffs

We're getting close to crunch time in the NBA regular season, and the Raptors are sitting in ninth place in the East, seven and a half games behind the eighth seed.

The Raps have 16 games left to play in the season, 10 of which are against teams with winning records. And as per usual, it's looking like the eighth seed in the East will probably need a .500 or close-to .500 record just to make it into the playoffs. The Raptors record is 26-40, meaning they would have to win 14 of their next 16 sixteen games to break even for the season.

The Raptors are not making the playoffs.

This has been a yearly occurrence for the team for the last five years. And once again another year has went by where the Raptors have some promising young players (Valanciunus and Ross), a potential cornerstone of the franchise (Rudy Gay), and a complete disappointment (Bargnani).

Toronto won't be playing for anything other than pride for the rest of the season, except for Gay who'll be playing for a reported extension from the Raptors. Colangelo has a tendency to sign horrendous contracts -- Turkoglu, Bargnani, and Fields. Those sounds you'll hear in the off season when Colangelo signs Gay to a max will be my uncontrollable screams as I cry like a baby.

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