Barrett unfazed by evolving role with Raptors

RJ Barrett is not FAZED to its constantly changing role in Toronto Raptors or even rumors that it can be exchanged this season.

Barrett from Mississauga, Ontario, brought Raptors with 21.1 points for the game in the campaign of 2024-25. And he was the second in a team with an average level of 5.4 programs in his 58 games. But since the former NBA star Brandon Ingrem joined the team this season, and the rest of the starters are all healthy when the Toronto training camp will enter its third day, it can be expected that his duties will change in court.

In addition, there were assumptions that Barrett, who had two seasons left under his current contract, could be a trading bait. On Monday, he was asked on the day of the media Raptors about how he copes with the constantly changing role and rumors about trade.

“I remain focused because I am not just one -dimensional player. I can do everything a little. I think this is one of my superpowers, ”said Barrett in the X Hotel in the center of Toronto. “The attack and finish, such things, just different things. I want my game to be a little more improved than last year.

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“I am very glad this year, problems grow, become a more complete, bilateral player.”

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This week, Toronto spends his training camp at the University of Kalgary, including open practice in the gym of Jack Simpson on Friday. Toronto's first pre -season game will take place on October 6 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver against Denver Nuggets.

For long sections of last season, Barrett and the center Jacob Pordell were in the focus of the attention of criminals, mainly because Scotti Barnes and Immanuel Quikli were injured. As a result, Barrett also brought Toronto with a percentage of use of 28.7, statistics, which estimates the percentage of command games used by the player, while on the floor, in 2024-25.

But Barnes (27 percent) and Quickley (25.1 percent) are healthy to start the preseason, and Ingrem acquired from New Orleans in the pre -government of the trading period last season, but never suitable for “predators” when he healed the dislocated ankle, will go to a larger number of plays of the rptors.

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“I mean, it's no secret that you add Brandon Ingram to mix, it changes things,” Barrett said. “We are not going to hide from this. (…) I have seen this since I studied in high school and college, NBA, I always played with good players, so I think about myself, since I had to adapt that I just want to win.

“Whatever, however, it will get rid of us, the goal is to win, and this is what is important. I obviously are not worried about myself. “


The general manager of Bobby Webster, who became the head of the basketball operation in Toronto in August, also asked about the role of Barrett in the team this season with the advent of INGRAM and in the light of constant rumors about trade.

“I think that with RJ we are talking about its effectiveness, and therefore his catch and shooting continue to improve, getting to the penalty line,” said Webster on Friday. “Do not expect that he will see as many double teams, how much attention, so now he gets into some turns on the weak side. All those things in which he is really good is to get to the edge.

“The more you see this and the more effective it is, the more valuable it will be. And then, listen, we push him at the other end, and he also knows that. ”

This report of the Canadian press was first published on October 2, 2025.

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