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Raptors Weekly Podcast, June 23 – Payne Points and Circular All-Stars

Did the week off partying rejuvenate the pod? That and other burning questions are tackled by myself and Andrew in a packed RW which tackles Lowry’s free-agency, silence and then his free-agency again. There’s that draft thing that’s happening, Payne’s position, sombre seniors, fat All-stars, summer league, jersey deals and so much more that I’m forced to make a list:

Part 1

RR Party
USA v Portugal
Lowry situation
Alternates like Bledsoe and Thomas
Lowry’s comments at the Nelson Mandela fundraiser
Lowry’s goal: payday or championship
Twitter hate-on for Miami
Andrea Bargnani news!!!
Adreian Payne workout
The rather sad story behind Adreian Payne
Seniors in the draft and teams’ perception of them
Rookie-scale contracts and their impact on the draft
The Fat All-Stars featuring Oliver Miller and Raymond Felton

Part 2

Summer league schedule
This year’s Vegas Summer League is a bit different from a Raptors POV
Should Terrence Ross be sent to summer league?
Kobe and summer league
Carmelo Anthony is a FA, just sayin’
Shareef Abdur Rahim, Carmelo Anthony and a wager
The NBA getting ready for corporate sponsorship of jerseys
Revenue sharing under a jersey-sponsorship deal
Who would the Raptors sponsor be?
Will Mark Jackson coach in the NBA again?
Will Patrick Ewing ever get a chance to be a head coach?

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why

I don’t think you remember Jud Beuchler very well – he was a very good athlete (was a volleyball player and a team mate of Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, and Tom Tolbert at Arizona) who could do a variety of things, including three point shooting – a solid, versitile player who could be effective in limited minutes which made him a valuable player to those Bull teams. I believe Jordan called him the “Technician”
- arsenalist
  
  I recall Buechler being a very situational player, brought in entirely for his three-point shooting and those late-game possession subs.
  - why
    
    I think you would find he did many things reasonably well in addition to 3 point shooting (offensive reound, defense, running the triangle offense – that is why Jordan gave him the Technician nickname).
    Your point about Bargnani is well taken – if he doesn’t become consistently positive with at least one aspect of his game, he is probably out of The NBA afther the 2014-2015 season. If I were The Knicks I would pay him and then tell him to stay in Italy – that way you don’t get sucked into the trap of him playing well for a few games then sucking for ten.
Birm

Not current, but Sean May has to be right up there on the fat all-star list:

http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/ca2c4237d5f827ca4d99f26a360f85ab/images_/assets/galleries/2011/9615/may.jpg
mike, prague

Fat all-star: R.I.P. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Traylor .
- mike, prague
  
  Robert Traylor
Rap fan 2

Charles Barkley guys! He’s always been big.
- why
  
  Charles actually looks fitter now than when he played.
  Remember how fat he was when he raced Dick Bavetta – he could still run way faster backwards than Bavetta could forward
Kermit da Frog

Kyle Lowry is overrated with. His excessive flopping and Westbrook like pull up threes…. Only in Toronto we over value mediocre players
- noname
  
  are you kidding? Kyle Lowry is not mediocre. Yeah he is a little overrated because some raptors fans think he’s a based god or something but he is still VERY GOOD. Without him we are a 40 win team.
rapp

aaron gray
DDon

At #20 if Payne and Ennis are still available who do you take?
DDayLewis

6th man: Boris Diaw
7th man: Dajuan Blair
- rapierraptor
  
  Oliver Miller better be coaching that squad.
  - DDayLewis
    
    He’s the team’s dietitian
Stef

‘wouldn’t happen but if Masai got Carmelo’ .. “… would be the final pin on the Aristocrats joke that is Masai Ujiri dealing with the New York Knicks …”

Ha. Good line.

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