Month: July 2010

Turkoglu traded for Barbosa.

Here's a list of players that could be acquired using the traded player exception we just got from Miami in the Bosh deal.

The TPE can come in handy if you are targeting a high-salary player (has to be a starter) on a team looking for cap relief. For example, say if New Orleans wants to cut its payroll by dumping Chris Paul, the Raptors would be one of the only teams over the cap to provide that…

Kleiza is a good player. An effective piece. But if he’s a starter and you want to be a good team, he better be your fifth-best starter or you’re not good enough, period

By now you've heard that the Raptors have offered a four-year, $20 million offersheet to Linas Kleiza.

It was an unmotivated, poorly-constructed, fundamentally flawed team, whose happy-go-lucky demeanour on the night it was eliminated from the playoffs left many feeling that if they were Chris Bosh, they’d get out of here, too. (There was singing in the locker room, for Pete’s sake.) Now, Bosh has done just that – in effect, sending…

It's official. Listen to Steve's podcast about possible sign-and-trade returns. We don't know yet whether we lost him for nothing or if we'll get anything in return but reports are that the Raptors are not interested in a deal.