The AltRaps Blog

TorontoSun.com - Basketball - Bargnani will be in demand
Raptors forward Andrea Bargnani goes by the nickname Il Mago (The Magician) back home in Italy.

Which is good, because he may need the power to disappear at times given the media scrutiny he is expected to be under when the Raptors touch down in Treviso, Italy on Sept.29 for the first day of training camp.

The Raptors will train in Treviso, where Bargnani played for two seasons in Lega A (Italy’s top basketball league), from Sept. 29-Oct.4, before heading to Rome, where Bargnani was born and raised, for pre-season games against the Boston Celtics (Oct.6) and home side Lottomatica Vitrus Roma (Oct.7).