SportingNews.com - NBA - Inside Dish: Raptors guard against backslide
Newcomer SF Jason Kapono, awarded a four-year, $24 million deal in the offseason, is expected to win the starting small forward’s job. But Mitchell had an insightful, and perhaps all-too-honest, response to the notion that Kapono would be handed the job because he was the team’s biggest free-agent signing. Mitchell indicated that Kapono was given a big contract because he was in the right place at the right time, putting up big shooting numbers last year for a decimated Miami team, not because of his talent.