If Toronto’s rebuild is going to succeed, the Raptors could learn a lot from Orlando. Consider what the Magic have endured this season: they lost their top scorer, Paolo Banchero, just five games into the year, and when they began to find a rhythm without him, their second-leading scorer, Franz Wagner, also went down with an injury.

The Raptors’ toughness, both physical and mental, was put under the microscope by a depleted Orlando Magic team whose identity is defensive toughness. When Jalen Suggs joined the list of injured Magic players late in the second quarter,