It was a chance meeting in a hallway days before Raptors training camp began, the kind of run-into-your-teammate-on-an-off-day encounter they go through endless times in a season.
Pascal Siakam was headed one way, Scottie Barnes the other and the usual greeting might be a fist-bump or a hello or some basic acknowledgment of a teammate.
“We were doing physicals and I was walking out and he was in the hallway, and he was trying to give me one of those high (chest) bumps like you do in the game,” Siakam recalled. “And I’m like just walking in the facility; it’s like I hit some game-winner or something.