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Ja'Kobe Walter Rumors
Mutual interest between Giannis Antetokounmpo and Raptors
Doug Smith: I don’t know if it will happen but I do know there is mutual interest between Antetokounmpo and the Raptors. The wild card is the cost. But I also think the Raptors are uniquely placed to make an attractive offer that won’t ruin their franchise or roster. I would make the case that a logjam at the wings makes them deep enough that if they had to pay even two out of Gradey Dick, Ochai Agbaji, Ja’Kobe Walter, RJ Barrett, Jonathan Mogbo would still leave enough to fill out a pretty good team with promising young players still developing. Plus, they have all their picks, so giving a first-rounder every year for, say, four years, leaves enough.
Blake Murphy: Scottie Barnes and Jakob Poeltl are both questionable Wednesday with the same MCP joint contusion on their right hands. Ja'Kobe Walter is out with right hip flexor tightness. Jamal Shead and Ochai Agbaji will rest. Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, and Ulrich Chomche remain out.
RJ Barrett, Raptors rookies join forces to beat 76ers
Michael Granger: Raptors sweep season series vs. Sixers in with 127-109 win. RJ Barrett with 31-5-5. Ja’Kobe Walter with 17-8-4 and 3/5 on 3s; Jamison Battle with 16 and 7, with 4/8 from 3. Fellow rookies Jonathan Mogbo (13) and Jamal Shead (11) give Raptors four rookies in double figures for first time in franchise history.
Josh Lewenberg: Ja’Kobe Walter is available vs San Antonio.
Josh Lewenberg: The Raptors are resting Immanuel Quickley and Jakob Poeltl vs San Antonio tomorrow. Ja’Kobe Walter has been upgraded to questionable. Dick and Ingram are out. AJ Lawson and Jared Rhoden are with the 905.
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The Raptors head coach pulled all his veterans off the floor in a tight game with the Orlando Magic and gave his young players a chance to shine when it mattered the most. And while Orlando’s Paolo Banchero, with a game-high 41 points, threatened to take the game away, Raptors rookie Ja’Kobe Walter hit a three-pointer with a half-second left to give Toronto a 114-113 win. “The last play … Coach drew it up for me,” a confident Walter told TSN after the buzzer. A game that was close early got chirpy midway through the third quarter, with players getting in each other’s faces and a technical foul being issued. The skirmish ignited a spark in the Raptors, who outscored the Magic 31-19 in that quarter and built a 12-point lead in the fourth, only to squander it late.
Michael Grange: Raptors win 114-113 on Ja'Kobe Walter's game winner in final second. They win w/ finishing lineup of rookies, Walter and Shead, recent 10-day signee Orlando Robinson and two-ways Jared Rhoden and AJ Lawson as Raps go full tank & win anyway. 22 in 4Q from Banchero not enough.
Cody Taylor: Ja’Kobe Walter: “That was really my first game-winner of my life.”
Vivek Jacob: Ja’Kobe Walter has been named the Raptors Team Ambassador for MLSE LaunchPad. “If there was a facility like MLSE LaunchPad in my hometown, I know my friends and I would've been there all the time. Being chosen to be the Raptors team’s ambassador is amazing, and I’m looking forward to spending time with and supporting Toronto’s youth.”
RJ Barrett a potential offseason trade candidate?
Pinpointing Barrett's standing is trickier. The Canadian has two more seasons left on his current contract after this one at $27.7 million in 2025-26 and then $29.6 million in 2026-27. And before that final year arrives, Toronto will almost certainly be holding contract extension talks with Gradey Dick, who the Raptors have held in as high regard as anyone in the building who doesn't have BARNES stitched into the back of his jersey. Don't forget that the Raptors also drafted Ja'Kobe Walter, another scoring guard, with the No. 19 pick last June. All of that makes Barrett someone who has to be monitored as a potential trade candidate once the offseason arrives. The modern NBA is now dominated by contract extensions and players getting traded to the team that is willing to give them one ... with surrounding players occasionally rendered casualties along the way.
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Josh Lewenberg: Immanuel Quickley has been ruled out for tomorrow’s game vs Boston. Ja’Kobe Walter is on assignment with the 905, joining Mogbo, Omoruyi, Lawson and Chomche. Battle back with the Raps.
Eric Koreen: Quickley will play for Raptors. On minutes restrictions. Gradey Dick will play. RJ Barrett out. WALTER available
Dillon Brooks drops 27 in homecoming victory over Toronto
Toronto Star Sports: Raptors lose 114-110 to the Houston Rockets. Rookie Ja’Kobe Walter finished with 27 points while Mississauga’s Dillon Brooks also poured in 27 points and 6 rebounds in his return home.
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