And they're all- everybody falls in love with players in the draft that two years later, for whatever reason there, the situation is not the same.
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But also these guys are- they're all eventually free agents. And you never know what comes up on draft night in terms of moving up to where if you have the opportunity to have at least sat down with them and get to know them a little bit, you have something to go off in addition to all the film work that we've done and the background checks that we've done to have a little bit of a portfolio on guys to be able to like really debate more comfortably than just taking roll of the dice and see who's there.Īnd so it's a little bit for draft night prep. And so our best bet is to use that opportunity at the combine to just get to know them personally. Yeah, I think we- every year, we kind of approach the combine as do our best to get to as many high-level guys as we can because like we talked about, they're not going to send them to us here in Toronto. What value does that have for you guys to travel with guys who seem to be high well outside your range? A couple guys who are probably going to go a high lottery or whatever- and it sounds like you spoken to- they said that and whatever the post-combine. The assistant GM/VP of player personnel for the Raptors discusses why Toronto isn't shy to travel anywhere in the world to meet NBA prospects and how that impacts its drafting process.