With more intrigue in a fresh season, here are five can’t-miss games on the Raptors’ 2025-26 schedule. Of course, you have to start with the season opener, as it’s what everyone is counting down towards.

The Toronto Raptors are building a quality team in the Eastern Conference, but could make a legitimate contender by targeting a forgotten All-Star player.

"I just wanted to make sure I got a good shot at the end of the clock" - Jeremy Lin's humble response after game-winner vs. Raptors in 2012 originally appeared on Basketball Network.

Vince Carter is one of the most exciting players in NBA history. He had the best years of his career playing for the Toronto Raptors and New Jersey Nets (where

Barrett has averaged more than 30 minutes per game in each of his six seasons. He’s down to 28 here. Dick goes from 29 minutes last year to 20 minutes in this breakdown. Ingram has been at 33 or higher in each year since his rookie deal. He’s down to 30.

Speculative three-team deal sends Darius Garland to Toronto, Immanuel Quickley to Phoenix, and Cleveland gains needed depth.

For all the criticisms you could levy at the Toronto Raptors' front office in recent years, it's hard to call them out for being frugal.

NBA released the 2025-26 schedule which means we can look at how often teams are playing back-to-backs vs. how often they're *facing* an opponent that's on a b2b opponent b2bs are ~equally important, but are not distributed as evenly as team b2bs pic.twitter.com/NxVzsfAh2t