The most relevant Gradey Dick statistic so far through the first quarter-ish of the season isn’t his three-point percentage (down), or his steal rate (up), or any of the other myriad weights and measures that can be used to approximate an NBA player’s value.

Instead, it’s the most basic number of all: games played.

He’s played in all of them, and apart from a couple of blips, has played well into double figures in minutes without making a start.

The reason it’s relevant is because even while fighting for playing time in a deep rotation of Raptors wings, and even while fighting that fight while mired in what feels like a season-long slump from the three-point line — ostensibly Dick’s specialty — Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic has continued to see value in having the just-turn

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