Title: Evaluating key areas that will determine Brandon Ingram’s fit with Raptors
Date: February 10, 2025
Original Source: Sportsnet
Synopsis: In my latest at Sportsnet, I broke down the key areas I’ll be watching and evaluating when Brandon Ingram eventually debuts with the Raptors.
In a season ripe with delayed gratification via the draft, it’s perhaps fitting that the Raptors’ defining trade is an exercise in waiting a little while, too.
Brandon Ingram is here, thanks to a bold trade that’s predicated on getting high-end talent in the door but isn’t without questions. Most of those are for the 2025-26 season and beyond: how do all these pieces fit together financially? Can the former Most Improved Player take another leap? Even the question you’d expect to answer promptly — how does Ingram look on the court with the rest of the core? — is, according to Michael Grange’s latest, “at least a month” from being plumbed.
We’ll have to wait to see how all this looks. That’s not the worst thing in the world for lottery purposes, though it comes at a chemistry-building cost. It also comes at the cost of I’ve done a lot of numbers and film work on Ingram this weekend and don’t want to wait a month to use it.
So, in advance, here are five things I’ll be focusing on when Ingram finally hits the court with his new team:
Blake Murphy Sports Writing 