{"id":930414,"date":"2026-10-12T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930414\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:00:09","slug":"raptors-bring-seven-foot-five-centre-jamarion-sharp-into-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930414\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors bring seven-foot-five centre Jamarion Sharp into camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-foot-five centre Jamarion Sharp is joining Raptors camp, Sportsnet&#8217;s Blake Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlakeMurphyODC\/status\/2109668604912324812\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was the 2026 NBA G League Defensive Player of the Year, leading the league in blocks, turning aside 154 shots in 39 games played for the Texas Legends.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp was previously with Toronto&#8217;s Summer League squad and signed a two-way deal with the Los Angeles Clippers after Summer League concluded. According to Murphy, there was interest from the Raptors to ink Sharp to a two-way deal of their own at the end of Summer League.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll now get a chance to audition for the Raptors, properly, in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto plays its first pre-season game at Scotiabank Arena Tuesday against the New York Knicks at 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet ONE and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-foot-five centre Jamarion Sharp is joining Raptors camp, Sportsnet&#8217;s Blake Murphy reported Monday. The 25-year-old was the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-930414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}