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An update on the Raptors players, if anyone is interested:

Valanciunas is doing pretty well, pretty much where he left off last year. He's dominating in his team's Lithuanian league games (16.8 pts, 5.6 rbs, 2.8 blks in 25 minutes) and is solid in his team's Eurocup games (8.5 pts, 8 rbs, 1 blk in 25 minutes). His stats in the VLB league games (mid-level competition, mostly against Russian teams) are a bit lower (7.2 pts, 6.4 rbs), but that was before he was getting starter minutes. Best news is that his fouls have gone down significantly, as he's averaging around 3 per game in each league.

Weems is doing very well with his Lithuanian team as well. He signed a full-year contract, so he's over over there regardless of whether the lockout gets settled, which is starting to look like a very good choice. He'll be a restricted free agent whenever basketball resumes. Anyway, in Euroleague (the highest level of play), he's averaging 17 pts and 4.6 rbs in 30 mins, and has become the primary scorer on his team. Hopefully he'll get a lot of confidence and learn to play at both ends of the court.

Kleiza is once again healthy, and will begin playing in Europe in the next two weeks. He's narrowed his choice down to Lietuvos Rytas (and Valanciunas) or Zalgiris (and Weems).

Raptors have a team option on Ajinca for next season. Hard to say whether he'll be back - personally I doubt it. He's playing on a very low-level French team (not in any Euro-league competition), but is at least getting a chance to play, and in his first (and so far only) game, had 19 pts, 13 rbs, 2 blk, 2 ass, in 33 minutes. Also took three 3-pointers, which is the #1 reason why I don't want him back on the Raps.

Barbosa is playing for Flamengo in the South American league. In 3 games, he's averaging 17 pts, 4.6 rbs, 4 ass, in 26 minutes. Raptors have a team option on him for next year. Though it's not Euro-league, he's still playing at a pretty high level.

As far as guys staying in North America:

Bargnani is in Toronto, working out and getting back into game shape. Rumours persist about him signing in Italy, if the lockout does cancel the full season.

Haven't heard much on Calderon, but might consider both Europe or China.

Derozan is playing in various charity games and getting lots of highlight real dunks, but I'm not even going to bother looking up the stats, because these are less competitive than the all-star game. Rumours are that he might be bringing a charity game to Toronto. Meh. Also playing flag football around LA with other NBAers.

Amir Johnson has played in a charity game as well, although with far less fanfare than Derozan. Not much else to report.

Jared Bayless has obviously been busy as the team's player's association rep. Haven't heard anything about him playing or planning to play during the lockout.

Ed Davis has been purportedly working out a lot and working on adding weight. His dad says that he expects Davis to be 15-20 lbs heavier when basketball resumes.

Solomon Alibi has been working out with noted development coach David Thorpe, who was absolutely raving about him over the summer. Still not sold on him being anything but an end-of-the-bench player.

I think that's everybody. I left off guys I think have no chance to be back with Toronto (Wright, Evans, Dorsey etc.)

edit: forgot James Johnson. Can't find anything on what he's doing.