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He’s the 30-year-old father figure — “I don’t like the Bench Dad thing,” he admits — of that young second unit, whether he likes it or not, based on experience.

He has tons of it, while most of the young men he shares the court with in that second unit have little.

The reason he dislikes the Bench Dad designation has nothing to do with age, however. He just doesn’t want to be singled out as being more important than anyone else in that unit.

“I mean, it’s even more fun for me because I get to be with those guys every night on the floor and see them take steps and get better and better,” Miles said.

“I don’t like the Bench Dad thing, but it makes me feel like (a proud dad) when I talk like that because those guys are in here as much as I am, maybe even more and they work as hard as anyone. I look at them as equals. The Bench Mob, I run with that name more because we are eye to eye on everything.”

Miles has plenty of father figure training in his past, but it’s all around 20-somethings.

In Toronto, he’s surrounded by Fred VanVleet, 23, Pascal Siakam, 23, Jakob Poeltl, 22, and Delon Wright, 25, not to mention the baby of the group, 20-year-old OG Anunoby.

He’s also an integral part of the Raptors’ closing lineup, that ace in the corner there to either make you pay for cheating off him and paying too much attention to the likes of Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, or to force you to account for him and thereby opening up space for Lowry and DeRozan to do their thing.

There’s no such thing as the perfect addition to a team, but Miles — given what the Raptors are trying to do this year with their offence and the number of young men they are trying to develop while still trying to win — is as close as it gets.