I feel like I’m a great defender. I feel like it doesn’t really get talked about enough but I feel like I’m a great defender.

Double-doubles with five dimes ...

Scottie Barnes is leading by example. The 23-year-old is playing some of his best two-way basketball of the season and it has resulted in the Toronto Raptors’ turning their fortunes around.

The message from league sources is the Raptors remain fully committed to a rebuild featuring fourth-year wing Scottie Barnes as a cornerstone, and they’ve seen enough from second-year guard ...

Before this recent six-in-seven run of wins, and during a period when an injured Barnes missed 35 of 88 games, Toronto's record was 4-31.

There was success in the script. Scottie Barnes ran Spain pick and roll, and rather than even considering a pass to the back screener (as has often been his custom), Barnes put his head down and ...

Darko Rajakovic has high hopes for Scottie Barnes. The Raptors head coach has not lacked confidence in his young 23-year-old star. Just last year he called Barnes the “face of the league.” ...

The Toronto Raptors see Scottie Barnes as the type of two-way player who can become one of the best players in the NBA ...

But it’s Mobley and Toronto’s Scottie Barnes who seem especially linked — maybe because they were picked third and fourth or maybe because they were so close in Rookie of the Year voting in ...

Darko Rajakovic on Scottie Barnes not making All Star: “in my mind he’s an all star. He plays like one, he practices like one ...

Scottie Barnes scored 24 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to their fifth straight win, a 106-82 blowout over the Wizards on Wednesday in Washington.