Since the beginning of 2023, Chicago has the best defensive rating in the NBA (110.3), and its season-long number (111.5) ranks fifth. The Raptors may feel good about their chances of bottling up the ...

So we need him to fall in love with defence, be as good a player as he is offensively.” Barrett, the third overall draft pick in 2019, is better known for his play at the other end of the floor.

A basketball player of prodigious skills. Anunoby became just the second Raptors player to be named to a post-season all-defensive team, joining Kawhi Leonard, a second-team selection in 2018-19.

“Push the pace and play defence," said Barnes on the court at OVO Athletic Centre, the team's practice facility. "That's our main priorities. That's what we've been working on a lot.

He's spent three years with the Chargers, which has included 11 starts and 1,742 total snaps across defense and special teams. Heading into Year 4, though, his future in Los Angeles is up in the air.

Here are thoughts on each of Indiana's new scholarship faces that played in the one-sided rout that kicked off the Hoosiers’ Puerto Rico tour.