Over the course of his first four years in the NBA, DeAndre’ Bembry has learned the virtue of patience and the value of hard work.
Those traits are coming in handy now for the Raptors backup.
Bembry, whose usage by the Raptors has been as up and down as the team’s season so far, seems to have worked himself back to the front of coach Nick Nurse’s mind of late, primarily because he has put in the work and bided his time.
“That pretty much just keeps me going,” the six-foot-five native of Charlotte said, “going against some of the other guys that's not playing, we would play one-on-ones, two-on-twos, even fives against each other.