VICTORIA—The opportunity to be an NBA player for a second time doesn’t come too often and when Andy Rautins got the chance, he couldn’t possibly have said no. Having shown well in a couple of informal open-run sessions with a handful of Raptors at the team’s practice facility the past few weeks, the 30-year-old Rautins earned himself an invitation to the team’s full training camp. It’s not Rautins’s first go-around with the NBA, which he hopes can work to his advantage. Drafted in the second round, 38th overall, by the New York Knicks in 2010, he played just five games before a series of transactions landed him without a job. He was traded from New York to Dallas and waived, surfaced in training camp with Oklahoma City in 2012 before heading to the D-League.

Source: thestar September 28, 2017 00:00 UTC