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Sometimes he stands up and moves up and down the court as if he is a coach. He yells at referees. He taunts players on the other team. He cheers heartily. Some of that is fine. Too much of it is excessive.

The long-time Raptors Superfan, sitting on the baseline, has figured out, for the most part, how far you can or should go at a basketball game. And in the celebrity culture that is the NBA, Drake is taking celebrity to levels that Spike Lee or Jack Nicholson never assumed in their best days on the sidelines of the New York Knicks or the Los Angeles Lakers. Drake needs to be noticed and thus is noticed.

After the loss on Tuesday night, Ujiri did the usual stuff. He talked to his coaches. He talked to his management team. He stewed inside the way he always stews when a win turns into a defeat. He doesn’t lose well at the best of times.

But in the midst of all this, he had to be concerned about Drake’s nonsense and a possible physical confrontation with Perkins.

“I went to Drake and said ‘Let it go, let it go,’ ” said Ujiri. “To me, it’s done. To me, it’s the emotions. If we’d won that game, he’d be like pumped up, and he’s heading out and taking s–t to whoever it was. It would be a different thing.

“But the way that stuff happened with Drake, I’ll take to Drake to the side. When you start getting into altercations, that’s crossing the line. I’ll talk to Drake (the league asked him to do that much) and I have no problem with that. I already calmed him down yesterday. It’s simple for me. We lost the game, let’s move on to the next one.”