{"id":939582,"date":"2026-10-20T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939582\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:48:11","slug":"raptors-reveal-opening-night-roster-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939582\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors reveal Opening Night roster for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roster the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> will take into battle is officially set in stone. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Raptors revealed their 16-man group for Opening Night of the 2026-27 season ahead of a matchup against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A star-powered group headlines the roster with Scottie Barnes, Kawhi Leonard, RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley and Jakob Poeltl at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors have only three players with 10 or more years of NBA experience on the roster: Leonard, Poeltl and Kyle Anderson, with the former the longest-serving player at 14 years. <\/p>\n<p>Joining the experienced group will be rookies Allen Graves, Jaden Bradley and two-way centre Nate Bittle. Malachi Smith was the other noted two-way player on the roster. <\/p>\n<p>Ten of the 16 players will be returning pieces from last year&#8217;s team, which finished fifth in the Eastern Conference and took the Cleveland Cavaliers to Game 7 in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full look at the Raptors roster for Opening Night 2026-27. <\/p>\n<p>Kyle Anderson \u2014 Forward<br \/>Scottie Barnes \u2014 Guard\/forward<br \/>RJ Barrett \u2014 Guard\/forward<br \/>Jamison Battle \u2014 Forward<br \/>*Nate Bittle \u2014 Centre<br \/>Jaden Bradley \u2014 Guard <br \/>Allen Graves \u2014 Forward<br \/>Trayce Jackson-Davis \u2014 Centre\/forward<br \/>Kawhi Leonard \u2014 Forward<br \/>Alijah Martin \u2014 Guard <br \/>Collin Murray-Boyles \u2014 Forward <br \/>Jakob Poeltl \u2014 Centre<br \/>Immanuel Quickley \u2014 Guard<br \/>Jamal Shead \u2014 Guard<br \/>*Malachi Smith \u2014 Guard<br \/>Ja&#8217;Kobe Walter \u2014\u00a0Guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The roster the Toronto Raptors will take into battle is officially set in stone. On Monday, the Raptors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-939582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939582","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=939582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}