The team has invited three players with disparate backgrounds and abilities to fight for a spot on the roster with an unguaranteed contract.

Robert Pack, a 36-year-old veteran of 13 NBA seasons, Tierre Brown, a 26-year-old who was a washout with the team's 2003 summer league team and Corey Williams, 28, who has no NBA experience at all, will join the team at training camp starting Oct. 4 in St. Catharines.

"The idea is we've got three completely different types of point guard," general manager Rob Babcock said yesterday. "There's a lot of different ways we can go."

Pack has played with Portland, Denver, Washington, New Jersey, Dallas, Minnesota and New Orleans in his well-travelled NBA career; Brown has been with four NBA teams.

Of Williams, the 6-foot-3, 28-year-old who did not play college basketball, Babcock said, "He is the unknown entity."

Brown, who played in the Los Angeles Summer League for Toronto in 2003 and did nothing to warrant an invite to training camp, has been with Houston, Cleveland, New Orleans and the Los Angeles Lakers.

None is expected to seriously challenge incumbent Rafer Alston or rookie Jose Calderon for a spot in the rotation, although Babcock said each will get a chance to show his stuff in camp and eight exhibition games.