RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley found ‘right situation’ with Raptors
NY Post
TORONTO — The start of RJ Barrett’s “full circle” back to his hometown, as Masai Ujiri explained, was about a decade ago.
Barrett was probably a middle schooler at that point, hitting his teenage years.
His father, Rowan, a prominent figure in Canadian basketball, escorted young RJ into the tunnel at the Raptors arena to meet an emerging top NBA executive for advice.
Repeatedly.
“Every single time he brought him to a game, he’d bring him to me. Every single time,” Ujiri, the Raptors team president, said. “He’d say, ‘Here’s my son, he loves basketball, please say something to him.’ Every single time.”
Ujiri provided that anecdote as a segue into his motivation for acquiring Barrett: the hope of unlocking the 23-year-old’s higher level with a relocation back home.
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