Quick post. Bryan Colangelo introduced Ed Davis and Solomon Alabi at the ACC on Monday. Colangelo definitely sounds like a man who is trying to build a different roster than last year, he’s speaking of the upcoming team as something brand new based on the DeRozan and Weems era, not the Chris Bosh one. He starts by mentioning that he would have taken Solomon Alabi if the Raptors had managed to acquire a late first round pick.
Jack Armstrong has called on Chris Bosh to stop acting like an “attention starved teenager” and make up his mind in free-agency. Armstrong states that the Raptors would have probably been better off if they had drafted Dwayne Wade in the 2003 draft, and suggests that even though Chris Bosh “gave it his all”, the …Continue Reading
Chris Broussard from ESPN is reporting that Chris Bosh is not willing to give up the $30 million because he doesn’t make the same off-court money as Wade or James. He also indicates that the Raptors would not settle for Luol Deng in a S&T with the Bulls, and will insist on Joakim Noah.
According to Doug Smith, Toronto is “close” to reaching an agreement in principle with a free agent for some, if not all, of the team’s mid-level salary cap exception. He doesn’t know who it is or who it could be, but does mention names like Matt Barnes, Ronnie Brewer, Shannon Brown and J.J Redick as …Continue Reading
How Bosh has managed to transform the public’s perception of him from “good player tired of losing” to “greedy attention-seeking diva” is truly a thing of beauty. He has handled the 2010 free-agency period about as poorly as one can. Whereas Dwayne Wade and LeBron James have met with other teams without alienating their existing ones, Chris Bosh has done exactly that.
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