What Raptors’ Casey has learned from annual visits with Seahawks’ Carroll: In the weeks before NBA training camps open in late September, Dwane Casey goes to training camp himself. As he prepares for his 37th year on the hardwood, ball cap on, whistle at the ready, practice plan tucked into his waistband for handy reference, the Toronto Raptors head coach goes through his own routine to get his juices flowing. -- Sportsnet.ca

Masai Ujiri: ‘I bully everybody to be Raptors fans in Africa’: Last summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Nigeria and Ghana with Giants of Africa, a non-profit organization founded by Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri. ... This year Ujiri pushed things even further, adding stops in Senegal and Botswana. I caught up with him by phone from the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders camp in Angola to find out how 2016’s Giants of Africa camps went. -- Sportsnet.ca

1-on-1 with Marcus Camby, Part 1: Raptors revolution & his next career: Marcus Camby’s Toronto Raptors tenure was short, but memorable nonetheless. The second overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft, Camby was named to the all-rookie first-team and went on to enjoy a 17-year career in which he led the league in blocks four times and won the Defensive Player of the Year award in 2007. I caught up with Camby ahead of Thursday’s Campus Pass event in Saskatoon, Sask. -- Sportsnet.ca

A calm settles over the Raptors, a welcome consistency of leadership: First, having the release go out around 3 p.m. on the Friday of a long weekend – a time generally reserved for bad news – was not an attempt to sneak it past anyone; it was just the under-stated way Masai wanted it handled. With him, it’s never about him and I bet if he had his druthers, there wouldn’t have been any official announcement all, life would have just gone on with him doing his job with no big fuss. It’s why we haven’t yet found out the number of years or value of the contract; that’s not his style, there doesn’t seem to be an agent around who’ll quietly and anonymously dispense the information. -- Toronto Star