<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Raptors have no picks in next week's NBA draft, and it's unlikely they are going to secure one so they are combing through the ranks of unemployed players to help fill out a roster that's almost at capacity now. In what can be termed as a basketball equivalent of a cattle call, the team is holding a free-agent camp here this weekend in hopes of finding one gem who might one day be good enough to be the 14th or 15th man on the roster. The camp ? which will include the requisite Canadian content from Toronto's Denham Brown and Newfoundland's Carl English ? will give general manager Bryan Colangelo and his brain trust a group of players to follow through the summer in case some situation opens up with the Raptors. "It's a way to assess a group of players who've either been in the league or been close to making it," Colangelo said yesterday. "You want to make sure you exhaust every opportunity to see them." The list, which Colangelo said is "still fluid" includes a handful of players that will make hard-core fans say, "Oh, yeah, I remember him." Stephen Graham, brother of current Raptor Joey Graham, Matt Freije, Richie Frahm, Frank Williams, Dijon Thompson and Donta Smith have had a cup of coffee in the NBA and have been invited to the three-day session. Australian Sam Mackinnon, who has been a fixture on the scene Down Under, is on the list to provide some international content. The Raptors could only invite players who are true free agents ? and no one who was on an NBA roster at the end of last season ? which limits the talent pool available. The best anyone hope for out of the weekend is a chance to, perhaps, get invited to the team's main camp next October ? no one is coming out of the weekend with any kind of guaranteed contract.</div> <div align="center">Source: Toronto Star</div>
Hope Denham Brown plays well enough to earn a training camp invite. It'll be a feel-good story if he actually latches on with the team.
Sam Mackinnon is the name i find intriguing he was the aussie league MVP lastyear, defensive player of the year and led his team to their fist championship in over 20 years.
