Chris Boucher is incredibly fun to root for. Has an incredible backstory, a journey that takes him from Saint Lucia to Montreal, from poverty to discovering hoops in his late teens, from knee injury to an NBA champion to a multimillion dollar contract with the Toronto Raptors. He’s covers the court in long, graceful strides and he’s full of energy, tossing in threes with that catapult-like shot and flashing his signature play — blocking opponents’ three-pointers.
Through it all he has steadily improved, on both sides of the floor. in 2019 he was a project; in 2020 he was a play-him-in-spurts bench energy guy; in 2021 he was a top seven rotation player.