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Ex-Knicks RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley to sit again for reeling Raptors

ExKnicks RJ Barrett Immanuel Quickley to sit again for reeling Raptors
RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley still won’t be back in the Raptors’ lineup Wednesday night against the Knicks.

TORONTO — RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley still won’t be back in the Raptors’ lineup Wednesday night against the Knicks after returning to the team this week following personal leaves of absence.

Both former Knicks have been listed as out due to “return-to-competition conditioning.”

Barrett will miss his seventh consecutive game following the death of his 19-year-old brother, Nathan, earlier this month.

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He has averaged 20.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in 27 appearances with the Raptors following the Dec. 30 trade that sent him and Quickley to Toronto for OG Anunoby and Precious Achiuwa.

Quickley also hasn’t played since March 17 due to personal reasons.

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He has posted 17.7 points and 6.6 assists per game while shooting 39.7 percent from 3-point range in 32 appearances since the trade.

The sliding Raptors, who have dropped 11 consecutive games to fall to 23-49 overall, also are without injured Scottie Barnes (hand), Jakob Poeltl (finger) and Chris Boucher (knee).

Jontay Porter also will remain deactivated for a third straight game while the NBA investigates irregularities on prop bets involving him.

It will be the second straight game the Knicks will face a lottery-bound opponent with a bare-bones roster.

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In Monday’s blowout loss to the Knicks, the Pistons were without Cade Cunningham, Quentin Grimes, Jalen Duren, Ausar Thompson, Isaiah Stewart, Simone Fontecchio and Taj Gibson.

Alec Burks has been listed as questionable for the Knicks with a sprained left shoulder after sitting out Monday’s game. Mitchell Robinson (ankle), Julius Randle (shoulder) and OG Anunoby (elbow) remain out.

Donte DiVincenzo set the franchise record with 11 made 3-pointers Monday against ex-Knick Evan Fournier and the Pistons, eclipsing the previous mark shared by Fournier and J.R. Smith.

DiVincenzo is seven 3-pointers behind Fournier’s single-season franchise record of 241.

“What he’s done, he’s in the record books for a reason,” DiVincenzo said of Fournier. “Evan is a hell of a player, and the one thing I respect the most about him is how good of a teammate he was.”

“When things weren’t going his way, he never changed. … I got to play against him when everything was rolling for him, but when I got here, things weren’t going his way and you would never even know. I think he’s up there in terms of teammates as one of the best locker-room guys.”

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