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 was too good to turn down.
“I had a couple offers in Turkey and Spain on the table, but this has been a lifelong dream of mine, so I’d be a fool not to pursue it,” Rautins said after Toronto worked out at the athletic facility on the campus of the University of Victoria on Wednesday.