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Raptors’ top pick OG Anunoby scrimmaging ahead of schedule

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Rookie wanted to test knee in a game after months of rehab.

OG Anunoby, the Raptors' top draft pick in July, played 16 minutes in an intrasquad scrimmage Thursday, his first game action since undergoing anterior cruciate ligament surgery on his right knee in January.

VICTORIA—Seeing rookie forward OG Anunoby in full-speed, full-contact scrimmage work during training camp goes down as the biggest surprise of the Raptors trip out west.

The first-round draft pick, who had anterior cruciate ligament surgery on his right knee in January, made his public debut in Thursday’s intrasquad scrimmage, more than a month earlier than had been expected.