Michael Grange

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it was interesting just to hear him because Grange asked the question Michael Grange and he's like No, we're all here.

We can play basketball.

We'll be able to play fine with another player, especially if his caliber is brought in.

And, of course, we've talked at length at the three-point shooting and having a guy that can create his own three, especially when the other team's going on a run, is going to be huge.

And you see in this video, I think Michael Grange posted it, it was just like – it was methodical, you know, the cross, cross, pull, you know, kind of in and out, step back.

You know, he's just got everything and his form never changes.

And so you don't think you're like, oh my God, is this a bad shot? Or, you know, what's the chance of this going in? You just feel like it's going in when it leaves his hand.

But Kawhi yesterday was asked about Pablo Torre, who of course was the one that broke the news and has been investigating the cap circumvention by the Clippers and allegedly Kawhi Leonard.

I don't even know what legal terms we have to use now, but this is the first time he's actually been asked about it since joining the Raptors by a Raptors beat reporter, and that being Michael Grange.

And here's what Kawhi had to say about whether or not he knows about the latest episode or has paid attention to any of the episodes.

Guys this time sort of pushing the investigation.

All right, fine.

So when Kawhi was asked about this today, that was interesting to me because at first he doesn't understand Michael Grange saying the words Pablo Torre.

He thinks he says editorial, which which to be fair, like I get it.

These guys can be so insulated that they have no idea.

Back at it here on your Wednesday edition of the podcast as we keep tabs on some of the storylines to watch here in the preseason.

We'll talk about R.J. Barrett, which is not an on-court thing necessarily coming up, but there was some intel from Michael Grange about the extension or lack thereof for R.J. Barrett that we'll get to a little bit later on.

uh but i do want to go to the sort of thing that the preseason or at least the early preseason is often very much about which is sort of uh jostling in the pecking order of the team right um like i said before i think the top eight spots in this rotation are pretty ironclad you got iq rj kawai scotty x starting murray boils shed walter off the bench that feels set in stone don't think anyone's going to lose their job from a bad preseason here and i i just i think that's going to be the top eight i also think the starters and those first three bench guys is pretty set as well you could argue that there's some upward mobility for colin murray boils to snag the starting job from purdle if he's just that impressive but i think that's more of a later in the season kind of thing and i don't think the preseason is going to change much i think there's a lot of inertia with that starting five and i think it's going to be a really good starting five so why mess with it um As far as the rest of the roster goes, you know, The Raptors are going to be good this year, right? They have ambitions.

And it's not going to be a team, I think, that runs a terribly deep rotation every single night.

We talked about it on Media Day.

Vivek Jacob had a pretty interesting question to RJ and sort of about the lack of an extension despite him kind of improving on all the things the team asked him to improve upon last year.

Michael Grange dropped some kernels of intel from his latest about RJ Barrett and his extension or lack thereof yesterday as well.

Sportsnet will get to that to close out the show in just one second.