Run down the expected Toronto Raptors rotation and the names come fast and furious.
Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet.
Pascal Siakam and Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka.
OG Anunoby and Norm Powell and new guys such as Matt Thomas and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Stanley Johnson.
And then coach Nick Nurse is wrapping up a post-practice scrum at Laval University and he tosses out a name as someone perhaps unexpectedly among the regulars who’ll start the season.
Patrick McCaw.
The 23-year-old guard, something of an NBA good-luck charm after championships in each of his three seasons, is being counted on to be a regular in the rotation right off the bat.