TORONTO — Darko Rajakovic didn’t want to go jinx it.

“We’re not there yet,” he said when asked about what advancing to the knockout round of the NBA Cup could mean for a team that hasn’t played a meaningful basketball game — where losing actually had consequences — since he was hired before the 2023-24 season.

“When we get there, we’ll talk about it. Get there first.”

Well, they’re there.

There wasn’t all that much doubt. The Toronto Raptors needed a win over the lowly Washington Wizards and a loss by the Indiana Pacers on Friday night to clinch their spot in the elimination round of the tournament.

The Pacers lost and the Raptors did their part with a fairly clinical 140-110 win over the visiting Wizards, who fell to 1-14 with the loss, leaving them in sole possession of the NBA’s wo

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