Linas Kleiza is happy to be out of Denver and with Toronto after spending a year out of the NBA with Olympiakos in Greece.

"I just felt it was a good move by me to improve my career and improve as a player," Kleiza said of the year overseas. "I had a big role on a very big team, a very good team. That kind of helped improve all my skills and allow me to show what I wasn't able to do in Denver.

"In Denver I was a role player and I did it pretty good," he said. "But coming back here and showing I could do a lot more things I'm not just that player that I was in Denver. That's why I want to go back to Toronto and prove myself all over again. Show people that I was a better player than I was in Denver."

Kleiza said he seriously considered jumping to Toronto a year ago when the team first came calling, but with Hedo Turkoglu and Chris Bosh there it didn't make as much sense for him.

The second time around, the Toronto decision wasn't a slam dunk, but that had more to do with how much he enjoyed Greece than what was going on in Toronto.

"It was hard for me to leave Olympiakos," he said. "It's a great situation but I feel like Toronto was the right situation for me to come back to the NBA."