If the Raptors make it out of the season with anything better than one of the five worst records in the league, Canadians everywhere should celebrate – or whatever it is Canadians do in lieu of cebrating. I’ve never actually seen a group of Canadians celebrate anything. Even during hockey season or the first day of maple syrup season, the closest to celebration Canucks ever seem to get is to be excitedly standning next to a countryman who also happens to be excited. But if the Raptors escape a cellar spot in the Eastern Conference, everyone up North should go ahead and down a congratulatory LaBatt’s – you know, a congrats LaBatts. If Andre Bargnani is going to force the positive hand of fate, he’s going to need help. The Raps have a few pieces that may surprise this season, but none so tantalizingly as Linas Kleiza.
Kleiza’s a perfect sleeper because he only showed flashes of quality play in his four previous NBA seasons (he played Euroball last y...
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