Jamal Shead Rumors

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.

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NBA Communications: Other nominees... West: Donovan Clingan (POR), Isaiah Collier and Kyle Filipowski (UTA), Zach Edey (MEM) and Quinten Post (GSW) East: Matas Buzelis (CHI), Justin Edwards (PHI), Alex Sarr (WAS), Jamal Shead (TOR) and Kel’el Ware (MIA)

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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.

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Jamal Shead flipped the ball high off the glass at the buzzer and ended up at the bottom of a celebratory scrum with his Toronto Raptors teammates. What a game winner -- until it wasn't. Shead appeared to hit a winning layup at the buzzer against the Washington Wizards, but he and the Raptors -- along with their fans -- ended up deflated when a video review showed he got the shot off 0.1 seconds too late. "Those are tough moments," Shead said after the Raptors' 118-117 loss on Saturday night. "You make it, it's a great moment. Sometimes you don't get the shot off in time and move on."

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Fortunately this all happened organically, as in, no one planned it. “I just knew I was dancing,” Temple told me. “I was always dancing. And Jamal (Shead) started putting his hands on my shoulders, but I didn’t know it was an actual conga line until we were in (Atlanta) and (Lindsay Dunn of Citytv) showed me the video. I didn’t know everything that was happening behind me. I thought it was me and Jamal. I was so locked in.”

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But as far how this started, Shead claims he has no idea. He saw Temple dancing and decided to join him, and the rest of the rookies followed. “He was just dancin’, and I started grooving and J-Mo (Mogbo) was behind me and started groovin’ and JB (Battle) was behind him and started groovin’ and so on and so forth,” is Shead’s version. “I’ve seen some video, I think it’s pretty cool.” Said Walter: “Temp and Jamal were pretty hyped, so since we’re young guys we just followed along.”

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Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said Cleveland center Tristan Thompson was "disrespectful" for dunking with four seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of the Cavaliers' 131-108 victory Wednesday night. As fans booed, Raptors players Scottie Barnes and Jamal Shead confronted Thompson after the final buzzer to express their displeasure at the late two-handed slam. "I think what Tristan did there was no class and disrespectful," Rajakovic said. "I'm not going to stand for that, for sure. I love when my team stands up for themselves. That was no class."

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Blake Murphy: Davion Mitchell and Jamal Shead are out. Mitchell’s injury is a crack in the skin in his foot. Shead still away from the team with flu. With Quickley on minutes restriction and Mitchell/Shead out, Barnes, Barrett, Brown all gonna play some PG.

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Esfandiar Baraheni: Davion Mitchell is QUESTIONABLE for tomorrow’s game with a Right Foot; Plantar Callus; Fissure. Jamal Shead is doubtful. Mogbo + the 2-ways are OUT on assignment.

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Blake Murphy: Immanuel Quickley returns tonight! Unspecified minutes restriction, and he’ll start. Kelly Olynyk and Gradey Dick are available too. Jamal Shead is out.

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Woj will visit Toronto this weekend for a free event about Name, Image and Likeness deals and college basketball with Raptors rookie Jamal Shead and others as part of his new job. When he suddenly retired from ESPN in September, it sent shockwaves through the sport. He’s thrilled. Before, it was so hard to just be where he was. “You’re not easy to be around when you’re distracted,” Wojnarowski says. “ You’ve got this one eye on this other thing that’s got its tentacles into you. “And so that’s the best part, to me, is how much more present you can be. You sit down to talk with somebody, and you just turn your phone over. I don’t care who’s calling me in the next 90 minutes, unless it’s a family emergency, right? “And that’s been a welcome change, I’m sure, not just to me.”

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Michael Grange: "I'm really satisfied with his development this year. Like any other rookie there's going to be ups and downs, but I like what he's showing us the last couple of games." -- Darko Rajakovic on Jamal Shead, who had 10 pts, 5a and was +17 in 16 minutes vs. Pistons.

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Michael Grange: Bruce Brown, Jakob Poeltl, Jamal Shead and Ja’Kobe Walter all in lineup for Raptors. Davion Mitchell and Bruno Fernando (illness) are out, as is Immanuel Quickley (elbow).

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Vivek Jacob: Jakob Poeltl, Immanuel Quickley, and Bruce Brown remain out for tomorrow's game against the Grizzlies. Jamal Shead is listed as questionable.

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