Donaldson excelled in the front office, but made sure to touch and feel the game up close. She played pickup with the team’s staff, outplaying most of them. (Her Toronto player comp: Fred VanVleet.) She rebounded for players at practice. Her passes still snapped. “Every rep I do, even if it’s just passing and rebounding, I try to be really precise and show that I’m there to make them better,” Donaldson says. “I don’t mess around.” The players noticed. “They trust her,” Ujiri says.
Fred VanVleet Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 02/25/94
Height: 6-0 / 1.83
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $9,346,153
Born: 02/25/94
Height: 6-0 / 1.83
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $9,346,153
The point guard definitely isn’t going to start listening to basketball commentators now as they dismiss the Raptors’ chances of repeating as NBA champions. “Typical. Typical media stuff. We’ve dealt with it before,” said VanVleet on Wednesday. “I don’t think any of us felt like we were darlings of the world just because we won a championship.”
“We’re hungry. We’re hungry again,” VanVleet said on the basketball court at Humber College’s north campus. “Obviously, it was a great run, we had a good time. We won a ring. But your career doesn’t stop because you win a championship. We’re all hungry and thirsty to get back to the finals.”
18 Jul
Nearly a month after winning the NBA Championship with the Toronto Raptors, the celebration has not stopped in Rockford for Fred VanVleet. Friday, the party continued with the third annual FVV Fan Fest. This year’s fest had a bit of a surprise from the Auburn grad, as VanVleet entered the gym at the UW Health Sports Factory with the Larry O’Brien Trophy in hand.
The first day of Fred VanVleet’s third annual basketball camp at the UW Health Sports Factory couldn’t end without campers getting to scrimmage against the Toronto Raptors point guard. “I’m not too good to go up-and-down with them,” VanVleet said with a smile Saturday. “It’s fun for them to compete against someone who is in the NBA and it’s fun for me to beat up on them and show them that they’ve got a long way to go.”
Ryan Wolstat: A Raptors executive (not Masai) on Terence Davis. “Hell of a player. He’s another one (referring to some of the franchise’s recent finds like Fred VanVleet).” They had him ranked in Top 35 of draft prospects. Moved fast to sign him after his breakout Summer League game.
