{"id":783865,"date":"2026-07-11T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/783865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:12:36","slug":"barnes-speaks-on-kawhi-were-trying-to-take-candy-from-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/783865\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes speaks on Kawhi: We\u2019re trying to take candy from a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">During Summer League action between the Toronto Raptors and the Boston Celtics, Scottie Barnes appeared on the ESPN broadcast (NBA TV Canada). At one point in the sideline interview, Barnes was asked about the potential addition of Kawhi Leonard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barnes immediately thought of the potential defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to take candy from a baby,\u201d said Barnes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Toronto\u2019s defensive rating of 112.1 ranked fifth-best during last season. Barnes was a big reason for that, as the dynamic forward was named to the All-Defensive Second-Team for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSeems very dangerous,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cWe\u2019ve got people everywhere on the floor, every position, that\u2019s ready to guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe know what Kawhi can do out there. He\u2019s going to fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Summer League action between the Toronto Raptors and the Boston Celtics, Scottie Barnes appeared on the ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,37643,46995,36437,680,476,65037,3820],"class_list":["post-783865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-raptors","tag-raptors-news","tag-raptors-rumors","tag-raptors-roster","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-toronto-raptors-discussion","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116901284632788908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}