It’s been a long time coming, but maybe never more needed. The last time the Toronto Raptors hosted a playoff game was Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals. A lot happened in that one, you might remember. Kevin Durant — then a member of the Golden State Warriors — caught fire early and then tore his Achilles tendon. The Raptors opened up a fourth quarter lead and seemed poised to win the title on their home floor, before Steph Curry and Klay Thompson pulled it back from their grasp. Then-Raptor Kyle Lowry had a potentially title-winning shot blocked by Draymond Green’s fingernail, and everyone packed up and flew to Oakland where Toronto won Game 6, a championship, and a place in NBA history. But as this version of the Raptors tries to make its first, tentative post-season steps and hosts a playoff game at Scotiabank Arena Wednesday night — the first in nearly three years, thanks to the pandemic and a lost season in Tampa — the distance between where the team was then and is now is as pla...