Holly MacKenzie - Raptors.com
When a draft night trade gave the Toronto Raptors the 46th pick, the team wasn’t expecting Norman Powell to still be on the draft board. The 6-foot-4 senior out of UCLA was the kind of player the team had been hoping to add to the roster. An experienced rookie with the athleticism and ability to affect the game on the defensive end of the floor, Powell doesn’t talk much about wanting to play defence, he just does it. Two weeks after getting selected — later than he’d hoped — Powell put each of the teams who passed up on him on notice when he became the only member of his rookie class to be named to the All-NBA Summer League First Team.