Coming off the teams most successful season, what are the odds the Toronto Raptors earn home-court advantage in the playoffs?

The Toronto Raptors are coming into the 2019-20 NBA season with a lot of questions floating around them. Who’s going to take over the role as the number one guy? Is the front office going to trade older players and get out of the luxury tax?

No question, however, has an answer as unknown as to where the Raptors will end up in the standings come playoff time. After their championship season, the consensus around the league is that the franchise will make yet another playoff appearance.

It’s just a matter of where they’ll land within that playoff picture.

Some, like Bleacher Report, will say the Raptors should end somewhere around the 6-8 spot in the East. Others, such as FiveThirtyEight, put the defending champs right in the thick of things in the 3-4 range meaning they would hold home court for at least one playoff round.

Home court advantage is so important, especially when you have a fan base like Toronto. So much so that the Raptors were able to ride their home court to the championship last season. Look at game seven of the series against the Philadelphia 76ers. They had home-court and were able to work with it to get them one of their toughest wins in the Playoffs.

Not every team can be in a position to win the championship so, for most, it can be the difference between getting bounced in the first round and making it through to the second.