2015 Raptors Offseason - Everything rumors, musings and rumblings

[BobLoblaw]

It'll be a good laugh if Dallas gets Jordan. Clippers will have to settle for a crappy center next season. Could make the 2017 pick even better (hopefully Clips make the playoffs as the 8th seed then).

I'll laugh at Jordan more than anyone. That guy will have a harsh reality check when he's no longer playing with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.

[iblastoff]

Love all the certainty in here. Who the hell knows what's going to happen in the next year plus. Not any of us.

So many more dominoes to fall this offseason, let alone dealing with DeMar's last year of his current contract. What we do know is the current talent on this roster is nowhere near good enough to topple Lebron/Irving/Love, let alone also top the best teams in the West.

One tweet at one point quoted/referenced Masai as striving to be competitive now and build for the future at the same time. I hope he's not sacrificing too much of the latter for the sake of the former.

And for all you guys who talked about needing to build winning cultures to attract FA's...Atlanta is having a hell of a time keeping their guys together, aren't they? If only it were as simple as "if you win, they will come." Any good to great NBA player thinks he'll bring the success with him when he goes to a new team. That's why some of these crappy teams are getting sit-downs with star FA's. Sometimes a guy wants to go to a winning situation and be some Batman's Robin, but a lot of these guys think they're Batman.

Random thoughts!

how is atlanta having a hell of a time keeping their guys together? im sure you remember they magically got paul millsap in free agency no more than 2 years ago. the 'problem' is they just happened to have a few players contracts up at the same time and all of them played better than what their contracts were worth.

compare that to the raptors where post-signings of fields, vasquez, terrence ross extension and now potentially lowry are all playing like shit.

i'd rather have the hawks problem.

[Masai Uhearme]

I guess we have to wait till tomorrow, then we get Westley Matthews.

[Scraptor]

Also, there have been medical advances. In the NFL a blown ACL isn't even a huge deal anymore. A bunch of guys, including Adrian Peterson, have come back strong from it. I think RGIII has blown his twice now and he's still going strong.

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Just to be clear, Wes Matthews tore his Achilles. It's a different injury than an ACL injury and from my understanding it's more difficult to come back from an achilles injury in the NBA.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/fantasy...tured-achilles

[Henry_Chinaski]

If Raps are serious about playing small ball, wouldn't it be worth to go after Harris? I'm sure you can get him for the same price as Mathews/ Caroll and all Raptors have to do is either get rid of Ross (3,5) or Bebe + Ridnour (4,3) to get into 14-15 million of free cap space (if the cap is 69 mil).

[blackjitsu]

If Raps are serious about playing small ball, wouldn't it be worth to go after Harris? I'm sure you can get him for the same price as Mathews/ Caroll and all Raptors have to do is either get rid of Ross (3,5) or Bebe + Ridnour (4,3) to get into 14-15 million of free cap space (if the cap is 69 mil).

Looks like Pistons are offering him a max contract.

[BobLoblaw]

But contenders can't pay him what he wants. It's up to west if he's willing to go to a contender for $5 mil or get $10-12 mil somewhere else.

I think he knew he would lose money when he opted out. He wanted to win. He won't close to 13 mil that he left in Indy, he's not that good anymore.

[BobLoblaw]

Does anyone know how Anthony Davis (after his rookie deal) gets a whopping 145 mill/5 yrs. (29 mill. a yr.) per the current cba.

D-Rose contract, plus it will only start once the cap goes up to 89-ish mil.

[BobLoblaw]

Its worse for the kings than you thought

Sixers will receive a protected 1st-round pick from the Kings, and swap rights w/ Sacto in the 1st round of two other drafts, sources say.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) July 2, 2015

Damn. It's raining picks.

[BobLoblaw]

If Raps are serious about playing small ball, wouldn't it be worth to go after Harris? I'm sure you can get him for the same price as Mathews/ Caroll and all Raptors have to do is either get rid of Ross (3,5) or Bebe + Ridnour (4,3) to get into 14-15 million of free cap space (if the cap is 69 mil).

I wouldn't mind him on a reasonable 13ish mil contract, but his max will be ~17 mil a year on average.

[BobLoblaw]

Amir's second year fully non-guaranteed, per Zach Lowe.

[Jclaw]

Just to be clear, Wes Matthews tore his Achilles. It's a different injury than an ACL injury and from my understanding it's more difficult to come back from an achilles injury in the NBA.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/fantasy...tured-achilles

When it comes to an Achilles tear, we're forgetting the most famous one of all....the Raptor. Msybe he should talk to Wes.

[McRealistic]

Amir's second year fully non-guaranteed, per Zach Lowe.

That makes more sense. I was very surprised with that deal.

[Balls of Steel]

Love all the certainty in here. Who the hell knows what's going to happen in the next year plus. Not any of us.

So many more dominoes to fall this offseason, let alone dealing with DeMar's last year of his current contract. What we do know is the current talent on this roster is nowhere near good enough to topple Lebron/Irving/Love, let alone also top the best teams in the West.

One tweet at one point quoted/referenced Masai as striving to be competitive now and build for the future at the same time. I hope he's not sacrificing too much of the latter for the sake of the former.

And for all you guys who talked about needing to build winning cultures to attract FA's...Atlanta is having a hell of a time keeping their guys together, aren't they? If only it were as simple as "if you win, they will come." Any good to great NBA player thinks he'll bring the success with him when he goes to a new team. That's why some of these crappy teams are getting sit-downs with star FA's. Sometimes a guy wants to go to a winning situation and be some Batman's Robin, but a lot of these guys think they're Batman.

Random thoughts!

The team may or may not be good enough to topple Lebron/Irving/Love but team ball may beat them (and yes 2/3 were missing in the championship last year).

[Snooch]

The team may or may not be good enough to topple Lebron/Irving/Love but team ball may beat them (and yes 2/3 were missing in the championship last year).

This team right now doesnt beat miami.

If they add mathews, thay may be a top 4 team in east.