Amir Johnson

Here's something I brought up when they first got Rui Hachimura.

One of the things Rui would do against the Denver Nuggets to some success, some level of success, was he would be the primary defender on Nikola Jokic and then Anthony Davis would roam behind him as the weak side help defender and he would just play off of his man.

He'd guard like Aaron Gordon or somebody like that or Bruce Brown and leave him in the corner.

And he would roll behind Rui Hachimura, who was the primary defender on Nikola Jokic.

I wonder, because it has been brought up before by Coach Lou at Media Day, I think, or at training camp, he's very aware of how the Lakers would use Rui in that way defensively because he's a big body, because he's strong, that he can guard up a little bit with help on the backside.

Does Isaiah Jackson turn into that help? And Rui actually is often guarding some of these seven-footers like he did with the best seven-footer, Nikola Jokic.

Brandon Ingram was there early.

Okay, now he's doing some screen navigation.

Yeah.

Amir Johnson you had in there.

JV.

But we ultimately put Alvin at number ten just for the fact that he hit the shot against the Knicks.

And that should be celebrated, and it was.

And it was really cool to see him with all the old guys and Chuck Hayes there and Freddie and Amir Johnson.

Shout out to Amir Johnson, one of the great Raptors, man, of all time.

And then seeing DeMar, seeing him DeMar there together, it just seems so natural.

There were hundreds of games where we would just sit there and film these two guys kind of getting locked in on the bench.

Hayes' retaliatory strike produced the longest suspension, while Orlando's bench departures immediately expanded one altercation into discipline, affecting 11 players across both rosters.

Amir Johnson Johnson's ejection on December 10th 2012 began with an argument over who was allowed to touch the basketball between free throws.

Portland's JJ Hickson was at the line during the third quarter when Johnson stepped toward referee David Jones and tried to take the ball.

Jones held it away.

But man, a surprise.

Like I said, the Toronto guys, Kyle Lowry, DeMar, Chuck Hayes, Amir Johnson, those four dudes, we might've spent every day together in Toronto.

Like, we literally spent a ton of time together.

And I didn't really have relationships with none of those guys before that.

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the entire Kyle Lowry era come through, you know? Everyone from, like, Terence Ross to Amir Johnson.

Yep.

Of course, you know, you know, DeMar showed up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

L- again, like the list you, you gave out earlier, I mean, DeMar, Serge, Danny, Pascal, OG, Fred, Kevin Love, Nick Nurse, Terence Ross, Chuck Hayes, Amir Johnson, C.J.

Miles, R.J. Barrett, Immanuel Quickley, Scotty Barnes, Jamison Battle, J- Jamal Shed.

Oh, let me go back.

Was that the next year? Amir Johnson.

I believe so.

Because that was the year before Toronto.