Impact is a fluid concoction of tangibles and intangibles, both on the basketball court and off of it, and there’s no one who epitomizes the term more than Fred VanVleet.
To this point in his basketball journey, the on-court impact has been vehemently clear. All one has to do is watch him. Whether it was teaming up with Pascal Siakam in 2017 to power the newly minted Raptors 905 to their first title, or becoming the spearhead of the Toronto Raptors’ Bench Mob in 2018, or, most stupendously of all, becoming a key cog in Toronto’s first ever championship run last season, VanVleet has always managed to defy the odds and exceed the premature expectations placed upon him by dismissive skeptics.