S ometime around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, Brandon Ingram’s heavy-lidded eyes will flutter open. He’ll roll out from under the Supima cotton sheets in his suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Atlanta and, refreshed from his nap, look forward to playing in a regular-season NBA game for the first time in 319 days. His day will have started with a light breakfast in the team room at the hotel, before a bus ride to State Farm Arena for the Raptors’ morning shootaround ahead of their season-opener against the Atlanta Hawks. He’ll get a massage, followed by lunch. He’s been eating the same game-day meal since he was drafted No. 2-overall out of Duke University in 2016 by the Los Angeles Lakers: chicken, rice and asparagus. Meal done, it’s time to hit those soft, shiny cotton sheets

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