03-11-2023 16:00 via raptorsrepublic.com

So Scottie Barnes is a star. Now what?

For many, many years, the Toronto Raptors were looking for the final piece of the puzzle. This was true even across different eras. In the Kyle Lowry-DeMar DeRozan years, Toronto shuffled small forwards over and over. In the Lowry-Kawhi Leonard year, Toronto splurged for Marc Gasol. In the Fred VanVleet-Pascal Siakam era, Toronto tinkered and added Thad Young, then Jakob Poeltl. The puzzle has been in place, but Toronto has simply been searching to fill in around the edges.
That is no longer the
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