About this time last year I was lamenting what was, in my estimation, the second worst season in Toronto Raptors history. And what an absolute wreck it was: ill-timed injuries, uncertain vibes, constant roster changes, multiple family tragedies, an awkward goodbye to a franchise icon (not to mention the separate trade of another)... oh and of course employing a player who infamously was wagering money against his own performance. The whipped cream on top? How pointless the dreadful performance of the team turned out to be, with the Raptors eventually relinquishing their #8 pick in the draft to the San Antonio Spurs (more on that later).
The long, rocky and likely painful road into a rebuild was now undeniable. Yet even accepting that, considering the glaring lack of player development in recent years (something that had been such a crucial backbone of the team's late 2010s glory years) the franchise still felt completely rudderless. Fans feared the team was now stuck in the middle of being bad: just enough good players so to not be along the slimy bottom feeders of the league but not nearly enough experience, depth or top end talent to sniff anything beyond a pointless play-in appearance (if everything went right health-wise... which it immediately didn't).
There was little nuance to what the intended plan for 2024/25 was: we're gonna lose. A lot. Hopefully develop some young players along the way and build much needed chemistry between the four key starters... but more importantly lose a whole bunch of games and hope those lottery balls shine fortune upon us. A good looking 2025 Draft, featuring multiple potential franchise players at the top, could be just the tonic to jump-start the competitive window for the Raptors... and for the first half of the season they were comfortably well on pace to challenge the worst W-L record in team history. It became a semi-serious question on the Hello And Welcome podcast whether the squad would win a road game all season, even exploring what the worst road records in NBA history are (if you're wondering it's the 1990/91 Sacramento Kings who went 1-40...!).
Thing is, that second half of the season went much differently than the first. Despite their not-too-subtle efforts certain nights to not win... from January 13th onward the team went 22-21, fueled by an extremely easy schedule and a sudden defensive turnaround. Whether or not this was a good result... well it may take a few years to know whether having the 3rd best lottery odds rather than the 7th best was the difference between getting that next superstar or not. At the current moment however, before we even know where that Raptors draft pick will land... the franchise appears to be in a much different place now than when the season began, with entirely higher expectations going into this summer and beyond.
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As were the rules last year, only players who played at least 100 minutes for the Raptors this past season qualify for a grade. This scratches out D.J Carton and Ulrich Chomche, who both briefly appeared, along with dudes who didn't in Brandon Ingram and P.J Tucker (who yes was technically on the roster for a week or so). This leaves twenty-one players, which seems incredibly small compared to the nameless hundreds it felt like wore on Raptors uniform during the swamp of last season.
Lets front with the fellas upstairs.
Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster -- A-
I suppose you can quibble about them quickly abandoning their own plan: you're in the first full year of finally accepting a rebuild and then you go off and trade draft capital for a nine year veteran? Who was an impending free agent? Huh?
Extending Ingram almost immediately after the trade certainly helped clarify the intent: yeah, this whole multiple years of tanking thing isn't for us. Ujiri and Webster looked around the league, saw the pathetic state of the other teams tripping over themselves for lottery balls and decided there was simply no acceptable path for the team to sink that deep into the ocean floor.
The Ingram trade was downright perplexing at first, without question. Considering however that the only significant future assets surrendered in the deal were a 2026 draft pick from Indiana (probably in the 20s seeing as the Pacers will likely be very good again next year) and the money you'll be paying him (which fine is a lot, but they weren't signing anyone nearly as good as Ingram in free agency anyhow)... well I've clearly talked myself into it being another tidy bit of business by this front office. Buying very low on a near all-star talent, who should add desperately needed juice to the team's crunch time offense... you can see the reasoning here. Add in the uncertain state of the Eastern Conference below the top four teams and... well there's a pathway to meaningful basketball again, that's all I'll say for now.
Improving the likelihood of that optimism is the real success story (and reason for the high grade here) of this season: the once vaunted young player development at last returning to life and plucking multiple gems out of an extremely lethargic draft class. Snagging Davion Mitchell and the second round pick that became Jamal Shead in exchange for eating Vezenkov's salary cap hit (not to mention getting Jalen McDaniels off this team) was an especially inspired move.
Maybe none of the five Raptor rookies from this draft will ever be all-stars, or even regular NBA starters... but they've potentially given the 2025/26 Raptors something previous teams haven't had in a very long time: playable depth. Those second year guys coming off the bench, plus another rookie prospect in whoever they're able to get in this draft... you've suddenly got a pretty serviceable rotation.
The true upside of this roster going forward will most likely hinge on that draft pick, however. There are guys who will become star players and still on the board if they remain stuck at 7th or 8th... can they find their next superstar there? For the long term goal of contending for another championship, it's a pick* they absolutely have to get right. In the short/medium term, the front office feels like it has mojo back towards building at least a good team again.
(*Unless they defy the odds and get the #1. That would simplify things a bit).
Darko Rajakovic -- B
My biggest concern last season was whether he could forge a quality NBA defense... and for the first part of this season that concern was amplified up to eleven (giving up 140+ points on a regular basis will do that).
Then sometime in January, a switch was flipped or a light bulb went on or the players themselves had just had enough... the effort and togetherness improved immensely. After wallowing in the bottom three of the entire league that first half, the team managed to measure as above average in several defensive metrics from that point onward.
A significant grain of salt is needed when you consider the sheer putrid quality of many of the teams the Raptors played after the all-star break. Still, it does pass the eye test: there was much more determination and energy on the defensive end, a much greater sense of pride among each individual player. All this developing mid-season despite any real playoff aspirations being burnt toast since late November.
Coach Darko deserves quite a lot of credit for all of that. Keeping a young team together and playing with intensity despite the circumstances of one deflating loss after another. The difference in team culture became abundantly clear when the Raptors were playing any of the teams in the super tank (especially the 76ers or Charlotte). The dichotomy of a collection of dudes looking for their own numbers against a squad playing together and for each other, quite striking. Cooper Flagg is gonna be real damn good but even he alone isn't going to be able to drag the Hornets or the Jazz into respectability.
If the Raptors cameo into tanking is indeed just that, with a goal of being competitive and winning being the goal next season... that will be Rajakovic's biggest test of all. We've seen the player growth, the buy-in to play hard from his guys... now does he have the tactical juice and fortitude to also be a winning coach? I suspect we're about to find out. Hopefully he gets better with the coaches challenges along the way.
THE PLAYERS
Jakob Poeltl -- B+
A career year for the big Austrian, who has always shown himself to be a reliable and fundamentally precise basketball player... this year he unlocked a little bit more and was arguably the most impactful Raptor when on the floor. Always in the right place, an unkind deterrent around the rim for opponents driving inside, also an occasional high post playmaker for you and his little push shot is money more often than it's bankrupt. He even hit a three! Jak (via his funky one handed shot and some mental exercises) boosted his free throw percentage up to 67 percent, which isn't great but far far better than his "foul me" career 55 percent mark.
Needless to say, if the Raptors have any designs of winning basketball next year Poeltl will have to be a big part of that. He's the only surefire NBA quality center on the current roster after all, while even if the Raps end up with somebody like Khaman Malauch or Derik Queen neither of those rookies are going to be ready for serious minutes banging around with the likes of Jarrett Allen, Joel Embiid or Karl-Anthony Towns. Poeltl has a player option for 2026/27 and I imagine the front office will be motivated to see if they can extend him.
Bringing things back to the trade that brought Jak back in the first place: I'll argue it doesn't quite look so egregious as it did at the time, even if the potential opportunity cost of having a younger option like Donovan Clingan or Zach Edey on the roster instead isn't nothing (not to mention this team would have had a worse record and possibly better lottery odds). The problem always was how the intention of the deal was so woefully misguided at the time: trying to squeeze one last gasp out of a core that just wasn't going to work anymore. Funny enough, having Poeltl now in this moment in time is extremely valuable, no matter how next year goes. Either it works and he's a key starter on a playoff team, or the Ingram experiment goes sideways and maybe you're seeing if there's a couple first rounders available for him. Let's hope for the former, of course.
Scottie Barnes -- B
Kind of a strange year for Scottie. He flat out was not a good offensive player in 2024/25: after the encouraging improvement of 2023 his three point shooting went completely in the toilet down to 26 percent, which did not deter him from continuing to fire (and clank) away. He had some impressive scoring games for sure, but there were some tough ones as well (particularly at the end when he played through a hand issue). Among players who averaged over fifteen points Barnes' True Shooting Percentage was second worst in the league, while his turnover rate ranked in the top twenty among qualified players.
Barnes had the ball a heck of a lot (out of necessity) and I think we're getting close to the point that having him run the offense is a nice feature but shouldn't be the all-the-time strategy if you're planning to win more often than you lose. The Raptors were a pretty bad offensive team this past season and you can put a fair chunk of that on Scottie's shoulders.
That said, Barnes (especially in the second half) was an absolute beast on the defensive end. He'd always shown flashes of that but this season is when we finally started seeing it on a consistent basis. Reigning in most of the flashy gambles and trusting his rare combo of strength and agility is all he needs to do. I also think we're seeing him grow into a more mature leadership role on the team... you only need to look and see him be as fired up as anybody on the bench when he's not playing, almost like he never sits down (maybe he isn't capable!).
The too excitable element of his game is still there, resulting in those turnovers on passes that are too hard or the unwise pull-up threes (which he really needs to eliminate from his game. He never makes them). I think considering the level of energy he brings you're likely just going to have to live with some of that stuff, hopefully minimizing it by having a pure bucket-getter in Ingram around.
Is there another leap in there? He's still young (24) but this upcoming will be his fifth season. Barnes seems too unselfish a player to take a dramatic scoring leap: he clearly enjoys passing and seeing his teammates succeed more, an admirable quality to have in a star player sure but you also want to see him physically take over a game like you know he is capable of. I'm skeptical he's ever going to reach a true MVP candidate level... but an all-star caliber, defensive superstar player on a really good team? You don't have to squint much to envision that.
The grade is essentially an "A-" for his defensive work and a "C+" for his overall offensive output.
R.J. Barrett -- B
Dude just does anything and everything the team asks of him. Lead scoring option because everybody else is hurt? Sure. Be a point guard while Quickley is on the shelf? Why not. Everybody is back, you'll still start but can you go play a bunch with the bench guys? Check and check. Even his defense, which had often been terrible, improved to almost passable for stretches in that second half renaissance.
Considering how obviously athletic Barrett is, it's confounding he isn't better at guarding people... he gets beaten on his feet a lot and his awareness isn't always as sharp as you'd like. Also... we have a season and a half of data now... what is up with the free throws? He shot 72 percent as a Knick but is at 63 percent as a Raptor... it's just bizarre.
Nevertheless, he is just relentless driving to the hoop with the ball in his hands. He isn't all that quick but he's so strong and his determination just overcomes whatever obstacle is in his way, even when it's so obvious he's going to his dominant left. Barrett didn't shoot the three as well this season as he had when first joining the Raptors, but his overall scoring efficiency remains much improved over his days as a Knick.
It's difficult to think what his role will be exactly going forward. You imagine Ingram will eat into some of his looks and touches... plus youngsters like Walter or Gradey Dick or whoever the Raptors wind up snagging in the draft (which is very small forward/shooting guard heavy at the top, you know, RJ's positions) could affect Barrett's role as well. He's clearly a valuable offensive contributor and other elements of his game still appear to be rounding into form... but does his skillset become redundant on this particular team? Well for now, the team just won only thirty games... they still need all the good players they can get.
Jamal Shead -- B-
Relative to expectations, this is the biggest home run of the 2024/25 Raptors season. Shead is an absolute hooper, man. The Raptors seem to have a knack for getting the most out of feisty barely-six-feet tall point guards and I think they've found yet another one.
Considering he was playing alongside a bunch of fellow rookies (or essentially close enough) much of the time, Shead brought a steadying presence to what could've otherwise been a chaotic, disjointed second unit... emerging as the clear leader of that group by season's end. Having a near player clone of himself in Davion Mitchell around for a few months surely helped Shead find himself, one thinks, as his tendency to throw the ball away decreased as the year went on as well. The second most assists by a Raptor rookie! Not bad for a 45th overall pick in a weak draft.
Running the bench unit full time and being the spiritual leader of the youngster brigade, barring something unexpected, appears to be Shead's destiny for next season. I think the reputation defensively overshadows the results at the moment, but he's got a keen mind for the game and isn't afraid of anybody out there. He was a bad shooter in college but had some decent stretches of success behind the deeper NBA line. Becoming an even average three point shooter would really give his game some serious pop, allowing those intangibles he brings to become even more valuable.
Ochai Agbaji -- B-
This time last year I wondered, if everything went right, if Agbaji could turn himself into a "poor man's Alex Caruso". Having seen more, that comparison wasn't quite fair since they're actually very different players. Caruso is a ruthless hawk on the perimeter who can ball handle a bit for you, whereas Agbaji is more of a play finisher relying on cuts or getting found in the corner for threes. He's also a good but not elite defender, which if he can indeed hit 39 percent of threes that's still an NBA rotation player on a playoff team.
When he came over last season, Agbaji was extremely underwhelming. Invisible on the offensive end and generally lost during his minutes on the floor. This season was like watching a totally different guy as he shot the ball with considerably more confidence and moved around with much greater intention and purpose.
Whether the shooting is a fluke or not is the key swing skill here, but it's entirely possible it's real (he was a very good shooter for Kansas). If so, buying low on him from Utah as a re-draft candidate looks like another quiet but extremely sharp move by the Raptors front office. He'll only be 25 when next season begins.
Ja'Kobe Walter -- C+
Had an injury delay the start to his rookie season, did not shoot the ball well at all those first several games he arrived (which put his FG% for the season in the gutter) and had another injury that cost him a couple weeks near the end of the season. Despite all that, we saw a lot to like from the twenty year old from Baylor.
Being named after both Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant (for real) might bring some heavy expectations, but I think most of us expected Walter to be a very raw and more long term project considering his age and uneven college performance. It certainly followed that script at first, yet Walter seemed to improve by some noticeable measure with each passing week: the three point shot came around, his savvy at drawing fouls and most interestingly... looking the part of a handsy disruptive on-ball defender at times near the end of the season.
He's still so young it's hard to speculate what his ceiling might be exactly, only that his rapid improvement in nearly every aspect of his game can only be an encouraging sign. One figures he'll be a key component of the Raptors youthful bench movement come next season... in the meantime this is the second straight year where arguably the highlight of the season comes from something a rookie does in Orlando.
Jamison Battle -- C+
Undeniably, Battle can really shoot it. That skill alone should give him a career in the league, with the funkiness of a bushy haired lefty shooter adding to the appeal. This is one of the best three point shooting seasons by any Raptor rookie ever, full stop.
What else can he do? Therein lies the question. At the beginning of the year he looked dreadful defensively, although so did the whole damn team so take that for what you will. To his credit, Battle seems like a thoughtful guy who works hard and his size (6'7) suggests he can probably help you on the glass a bit as well, which he did towards the end of the season. He's a bit older than the other rookies but even if he only amounts to a 10th or 11th shooting specialist guy on your roster, that's still a great outcome on an undrafted prospect.
Davion Mitchell -- C+
"Off Night" (still an awesome nickname) came as advertised: an absolutely tenacious defender who stays glued to his man like a model plane mishap. What an absolute nightmare it must be having his guy guard you all night... even if you're making your shots it still won't be easy.
His shortcomings are also as advertised: just not an assertive enough scorer or crisp initiator of offense to be a lead guard for a team, making his fit as a starter on a good roster rather tricky. Clearly a useful player to have around for certain situations and to his credit he's been terrific for Miami down the stretch (just ignore the Heat's record for much of that time).
Mitchell's declaration about being the best defensive player in the NBA is a bit tall of course, but the stories we heard of him as a Raptor obsessively and meticulously studying the film of opponents he's going to guard shows an intense dedication to his craft. A good player to have around, even if only briefly, and best of luck to him.
Immanuel Quickley -- C
A lost season for IQ no doubt, one where random injuries stopped him from any sustained run on the court in the early going. By the time he was fully healthy, the team was "resting" starters every other game to help the tanki-I-mean for their minor ailments. Go figure.
Unfortunately, when Quickley did play he was often ineffective. He's a great three point shooter and that skill remained, but there were plenty of games you'd hardly notice him out there at all if the outside shot wasn't there for him. Quickley wasn't able to get to the rim with any reliable frequency, his mid range game was up and down and any sign of him taking a step forward as a playmaker didn't show this time around.
It's unfair to judge him too harshly on a season where he never really had a chance to get himself going, but some long term concerns are still warranted. He's not a great defender (being so slight as to get pushed around easily) and pairing him long term in the backcourt with somebody like Gradey Dick or the early season version of Barrett just isn't tenable. Still, I think you hope for a bounceback to full health and see what that looks like with all these new players in the fold (plus potentially another play-making guard depending on the draft). Quickley's ceiling as a shooter and secondary scoring threat makes him a key piece if the team does plan on being good next year.
Chris Boucher -- C
A tale repeated as often as a clock strikes twelve... Chris Boucher begins the season not in the Raptors rotation, injuries force him into it, he plays his usual chaotic yet often effective brand of basketball, Coach Darko realizes Boucher is too good if the team is trying to lose games and so Chris vanishes back into the ether for the final months of the season.
He's a free agent now (still amazed they didn't trade him) and one figures Boucher isn't going to sign up to do this yet again, right? There are plenty of good NBA teams that could find a bench role for a rangy energy big who despite his wacky mechanics (he shoots like he's heaving a boulder over a cliff) can sometimes get hot from three like Boucher can.
Or maybe he likes it so much here, his adopted home country, he comes back anyway at a price just under the luxury tax? Who the hell knows... it's still so strange that he seems to have just disappeared off the face of the Earth since the end of February. Had he appeared in just a dozen more contests he would've cracked the Raptors top ten all-time in games played.
Gradey Dick -- C
I have my concerns... but he's also still so damn young (only Walter and Chomche are younger) that you easily forget there's a lot of growing still left to do.
That early stretch of the season was pretty damn impressive. Without Barnes or Quickley much of the time, Gradey became a focal point of the offense and seemed to set a new career high in scoring every other game. I think around the end of December he ran out of gas: the shooting efficiency slipped, the fun reckless drives to the basket (and acrobatic flips off the backboard) were less frequent and his exceptional sense of when to cut lacked much of the previous boundless energy. New Years Day was the final time he scored twenty in a game and his minutes had been slightly dipping before a nasty collision in Orlando ended his season prematurely.
With the team so heavy with twos and threes like Walter, Ingram, RJ, Ochai, even Battle potentially... I think Gradey being handed a blank 30+ minutes a game cheque for his development will not be on the table anymore. His shooting gravity can be useful sure, but so much of that is still theoretical with his career percentage hovering at a very average 35 percent. Considering how awful he still is defensively (his speed doesn't make up for his lack of strength or NBA level awareness... he gets backcut a lot) that shooting will have to nudge closer to an elite level and/or he'll have to get better at creating his own shot. As is, you'd probably rather play Battle instead if you want a reliable shooting threat and are trying to win.
But Gradey is young and he's shown us enough dizzying highs already... I think a good Raptors 2025/26 team can and will still feature Gradey in a useful but dialed back role as part of the youthful bench. He started every game he played this season, which I doubt happens next year.
Jonathan Mogbo -- C
I like Mogbo a lot: he does a few things quite well that this team could use, plus he has a good sense of things as a defender. It's a bit awkward that at his best he's like an playmaking high post center in the body of a wing, but there is utility in that kind of player in small ball matchups.
He has to improve on the offensive end for any of this to work. Far too often he looked lost out there, completely unsure what to do when catching the ball and those long moments of hesitation totally wreck the offense. There's a trepidation to his game, an instinct to automatically defer to somebody else that he needs to purge from his system. Often it was like he couldn't compute things quickly when the best play in that moment was for he himself to take the shot.
It's unlikely Mogbo will ever be even an average shooter from distance but hey neither is Draymond Green, which you're hoping is the template he can follow (ideally without the violent outbursts, tonedeaf commentary and senseless beefs around the league). The tools are there for Mogbo to be some version of that.
Bruce Brown -- C
Missed a bunch of time to start the season recovering from a knee issue, came back and eased his way into playing better and better until the Raptors at long last were able to trade him as salary ballast to get Brandon Ingram.
Brown is a quality NBA player, a key cog on a recent champion and as such his fit here always felt awkward since all parties knew this was a temporary arrangement. By all accounts Brown handled himself like a professional, was a good teammate to the younger guys and most crucially of all could really rock some damn fine looking cowboy outfits (a preferred fashion choice which becomes quite strange when you realize he grew up in Massachusetts).
Orlando Robinson -- C
A flawed but interesting player: there's not much rim protection and he looks a bit flat footed on the glass for my taste (though still much quicker than Olynyk at least). On the other side of the ball, the concept of him as a stretch five among a defensive-minded bench unit is compelling... he's got a bit of a pick and pop element and makes good short passes in tight spaces. I think there's a quality backup player in there somewhere, wouldn't be my plan A for that spot but this team has done much much worse (Aron Baynes anyone? Old Thad Young as a centre?) in recent years.
The Raptors themselves may not agree, cutting Robinson loose right before the season ended while opting instead to bring Colin Castleton back. A strange move: Robinson played the 13th most minutes on the team all season... they gave him a very very long audition.
A.J. Lawson -- C
Local fella, who'd been an end of bench guy on some good Mavericks teams, comes home to a bad team and is let loose to shoot shots away at his heart's content. "We're trying to lose anyway... have at it, kid!"
Not sure I see much of a long term player in there... as a scorer there isn't much of a package beyond shooting or sheer athleticism, which he's rather inconsistent at to begin with (though he's a rangy defender I'll give him that). Nevertheless it was good fun seeing him go nuclear from the field on occasion. He's an explosive enough athlete you maybe bring him back again as a 15th man type and see if there's any other element of his game you can unearth.
Garrett Temple -- C-
A true veteran's veteran. Always ready when called upon, even after riding the bench for a month. There isn't much anymore on an NBA court he can do to help you win (some quirky moments aside) but he sure seems like a key part of the team's culture off of it. In a season with so many rookies and young players not used to this level of losing (they've been stars on every team they've ever played for, that's why they're in the NBA after all) having an experienced voice like Temple around and among the players surely has helped keep this team cohesive and still playing hard.
He did hurt his knee in the final game of the year. Here's hoping for a quick recovery as by all accounts he's thinking he's got "one more year left in him".
Jared Rhoden -- C-
This seems a good time to compare the various G League names we ran through last season compared to this one. Remember those extended looks at Javon Freeman-Liberty, or Mouhamadou Gueye, or Jahmi'us Ramsay, or Malik Williams? No? That's fine... we lost almost every single one of the contests any one of those guys appeared in and none of them have played in an NBA game since.
The difference between those guys and the likes of Lawson, Rhoden, Robinson etc... is that we're seeing them wipe the floor against that very same level of competition we were trotting out last year. The Nets, Hornets, 76ers are essentially sending out their own versions of Freeman-Liberty, Gueye, Ramsay etc... whereas guys like Rhoden are just better, more effective players within this tighter team dynamic. They don't play "my turn your turn" basketball... at least not here they haven't.
As for Rhoden himself... I confess there wasn't a whole lot he did that stood out to me either way. I wanna say he defended well? So many of those games late in the season were just a blur of bad teams stocked with fringe players we'll likely never hear of again.
Kelly Olynyk -- C-
The back issue that kept him out for the start of the season was clearly much worse than anybody let on. After missing the first six weeks he came back and looked like a shell of himself: constantly a step slow (a problem when you're already in your 30s and not known as fleet-footed to begin with) and just completely unable to keep anybody in front of him. Combined with a poor showing in the Olympics, I began to wonder if he was completely cooked. Even his ability to be a playmaker at the top of the floor seemed greatly diminished.
Things started to improve the last month before the trade deadline, fortunate timing for his salary to be combined with Brown's and match the incoming Ingram bill. He's since gone on to play like his old self for the Pelicans, suggesting he does indeed have a bit of life left. It was nice having him around for a bit, even if the team was thoroughly dreadful for his entire tenure. A fun and odd player to watch.
Colin Castleton -- D+
He's long and springy so I suppose there's some upside there (apparently the Raptors think so, re-signing him to a non-guaranteed deal for next year).
Personally, I wasn't all that impressed with what I saw. Castleton seems too thin to be able to bang around in the post, there wasn't much in the way of blocks or altering shots, we didn't see enough shooting to convince us he can be a stretch big, plus his propensity to turn the ball over (those hands seemed a bit loose) make his utility as a play finisher very questionable. Seeing as we're talking about end of the roster/Raptors 905 types at this point, it's not all that big a deal if he's a guy they want a longer look at... I just think Robinson played considerably better.
Cole Swider -- D+
Doesn't matter if you can shoot when you're not taking the shots. Swider became more comfortable after a few games, but there's not much else he seems to bring.
Bruno Fernando -- D+
Worth a harmless look in a season never destined to be competitive but he's clearly not an NBA player at this point, a reality proven by immediately catching on with Real Madrid (not that Real Madrid) of the EuroLeague once the Raptors released him. His overall play was probably more deserving of a "D" but he gave us this highlight (another standout in a lost season) so I'll be generous.
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