There’s an excellent Thursday night game in the NFL this week with the New Orleans Saints visiting the Dallas Cowboys in a matchup of division leaders. However, some sports fans will be focusing on basketball from at least 8-10 p.m. ET or so when the Golden State Warriors visit the Toronto Raptors in the first game of the TNT doubleheader.

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This could be a preview of the NBA Finals – which Toronto has never reached – as the Raptors have the league’s best record and are favored to win the Eastern Conference. The Warriors aren’t quite atop the Western Conference yet but surely will be by the end of the regular season if healthy and remain heavy favorites to win a fourth NBA title in five years.

Two individual side plots for this game. First, Warriors All-Star and two-time MVP Stephen Curry could return from a groin injury that has kept him out the past 10 games. Golden State is absolutely loaded but not the same without Curry and just 5-5 without him in the current stretch. There was no early betting line on this game because of Curry, who did return to practice Tuesday.