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PHOENIX — DeMarre Carroll is going to get booed by many Raptors fans when he makes his return to Toronto on Friday night in a Brooklyn Nets uniform.

We get it, but it’s a mistake.

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While Vince Carter, Chris Bosh and Tracy McGrady deserved the vitriol for the way they handled their exits, Carroll actually did the team a favour. Plus, he did something else in service of the franchise and his teammates that should be lauded.

More on that later.

First off, Carroll ruffled some feathers when he indicated to this reporter in a phone interview back in July that there were some issues holding the Raptors back.

“Toronto is an (isolation) team, that’s what they win off (of), that’s what they’ve been playing off of for five, six years now,” Carroll said then, some five months ago.

“This year, I feel like a lot of guys didn’t trust each other and a lot of guys, they didn’t feel like other guys could produce or (be) given the opportunity, so there was a lot of lack of trust on our team, so that’s what hindered us from going (as far as they wanted to go).”