System Upgrade: On Danny Green’s Fit in Toronto
It's not easy being Green—unless you're stepping into a basketball system that prioritizes your best attributes.
It's not easy being Green—unless you're stepping into a basketball system that prioritizes your best attributes.
The Raptors have one year to convince Leonard that the city of Toronto and the Raptors organization are the best possible fit for him.
Last season, the Raptors took a shot at changing the team without changing the roster. Sure, they brought in CJ Miles and rebuilt the bench, but the goal was to adapt to a modern NBA, become more of a versatile team that shot more threes, while retaining the personnel that had built their success. To…
Well, it happened. Kawhi Leonard is a Toronto Raptor. Due to the uncertainty of the move and the mixed emotions that come with moving a player of Demar DeRozan’s tenure/character, many north of the border seem to have soured Leonard already. However, a word of caution: considering how important Oklahoma Cities’ fans and culture were in making Paul George…
The Raptors just got the best player in franchise history. Is that worth it?
Even if they’ll still probably be rebuilding that team twelve months from now.
It’s been a quiet summer for Masai Ujiri and the Raptors thus far, with teams unwilling to trade out of the draft, and no cap space to speak of, bringing back Fred VanVleet, while important, was the only move they made in free agency to this point. Fans hoping for larger scale change with the…