We learned some things during a too-long, six-game Toronto Raptors preseason schedule, but the most important information came Friday night.

Scottie Barnes has not forgotten how to play offensive basketball after all, nor is he too banged up to do it.

Yes, Toronto was playing a Brooklyn Nets team that should have a hard time winning 20 games in 2025-26, but that doesn’t mean you just throw what Barnes did against them out the window. The team’s best overall talent had been brutal offensively in his previous three appearances, shooting just 20% from the field on 30 attempts, mostly taken from too far away from the rim. Even the Boston Celtics broadcast team was wondering why they weren’t hearing his name mentioned at all in a recent quiet game.

Some knee tendinitis was partly to blame, b

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