Brandon Ingram sat through all those weeks and all those games and practices, bus rides and plane trips, taking stock of his new Raptors teammates.

He couldn’t play for his first three months with his new NBA team but he could watch, listen, learn and understand his new colleagues on a deeper level.

Not to see who could shoot or who would pass, or which of them would be there to help and support him best in the minutia of NBA games.

No, as we come to get to know Ingram better, he was gathering information about the things that matter the most to him.

Values.

“I think you’ve got to get to know a person, you’ve got to know their values,” he said. “You’ve got to understand a person … before you go on the floor. You start to understand them and you realize why they do what they do wh

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