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Jamal Shead falls into interesting spot as Raptors' 2025-26 season approaches

Toronto needs a sturdy guard in place of Immanuel Quickley ... and Jamal Shead is first up to the scales

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It was clear when the Toronto Raptors decided to abandon the Davion Mitchell experiment, which had proven to be effective in spurts, that Jamal Shead was fully trusted as the team's primary focus of a tenacious and gritty guard for the foreseeable future.

I was really impressed with Shead's rookie campaign, especially given the circumstances that brought him to Toronto in the first place.