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Toronto Raptors: 15 best draft picks of all-time

By Mike Bossetti

TORONTO, ON - DECEMBER 17: Vince Carter
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Morris Peterson, Toronto Raptors
BW03_Raptors_011104–Toronto Raptors Morris Peterson keeps the ball inches away from Portland Trail Blazers Todd Stoudamire, January 11, 2004. Raptors won 83-72. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star) (Photo by Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images) /

player. 81. . Shooting Guard. Michigan State University. Morris Peterson. 7

You will be hard pressed to find a bigger fan favorite than Morris Peterson. Drafted with the 21st pick out of Michigan State, Peterson retired as the Raptors’ all-time leader in games played and 3-pointers made. (Those records have since been broken by DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry, respectively).

Playing with the Raptors from 2000-2007, Peterson averaged just 12 points per game, but made an impact in other ways. A great defender and 3-point specialist, Peterson would have fit in perfectly in today’s NBA.

Despite playing for the team for seven seasons, Peterson has one moment that sticks out above everything else. During the 2006-07 season, in a game critical for playoff seeding, Peterson hit perhaps the biggest shot in Raptors’ history.

The win helped the Raptors earn the No. 3 overall seed, the best in team history at that time.

After leaving the Raptors, Peterson went on to play three seasons for the New Orleans Hornets and one for the Oklahoma City Thunder, neither of which compare to his career with the Raptors.