Plenty of things have gone right for the Toronto Raptors in the early days of the 2025-26 season. Article content

Yes, we’re not even a month into the action yet, but this is the first time in three years (Nov. 28, 2022) a Raptors team has been two games over .500 and the player the franchise has banked so much on, Scottie Barnes, has never been better than what he has shown through 12 games. Article content Article content

Barnes turned in one of his best games as a Raptor in Thursday’s win at Cleveland , stuffing the stat sheet with 28 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 blocks, and if you were ranking the 10 best players in the NBA so far, Barnes has a great case to be amongst them — and an ironclad one if you were placing defensive impact on equal footing as what a player does

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