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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

MindzEye said:
Yeah, I don't think even entertaining "his" price is a thing. The market is really unlikely to be high on him as a free agent. I think you tap in with the trade market this summer to see if there's anything out there for you, with RJ as a trade chip option and see what happens. Do that while seeing if RJ will extend at a team friendly number aligned with his analytic value and just see what happens. If nothing happens, playing out the clock with him is entirely acceptable. The only thing not acceptable is buckling to fan pressure and signing him to another bad deal. We already have enough dodgy contract value on our books to deal with. Ingram, IQ, and Jake are all over priced deals for us to work around.
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Mindz how do you see the Spurs managing their cap when supermax Wemby with Fox eat 110+ mil shortly
 
If his second child isn't 1) with another woman & 2) not named LaTwo, then the simulation isn't even trying anymore.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
Any generational talent available in this draft?
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Generational, no?

It's a weird draft with a few potential franchise level players but all of them with legit question marks. Any of Peterson, Boozer, Dybantsa or Wilson could be perennial all stars. Darius Acuff could answer the question "what would happen if you made Trae Young 6'3/200 instead of 5'11 160" and he becoming a top 3-5 PG in the league wouldn't remotely surprise me. Fuck, I even like Flemings' NBA projection. I'm not sure he's the athlete for it, but he profiles as a modern do everything lead guard, even if I'm not sure that the scoring is explosive at the NBA level. He does everything else though, defends his ass off, good shooter on and off ball, smart playmaker.
 
MindzEye said:
Generational, no?

It's a weird draft with a few potential franchise level players but all of them with legit question marks. Any of Peterson, Boozer, Dybantsa or Wilson could be perennial all stars. Darius Acuff could answer the question "what would happen if you made Trae Young 6'3/200 instead of 5'11 160" and he becoming a top 3-5 PG in the league wouldn't remotely surprise me. Fuck, I even like Flemings' NBA projection. I'm not sure he's the athlete for it, but he profiles as a modern do everything lead guard, even if I'm not sure that the scoring is explosive at the NBA level. He does everything else though, defends his ass off, good shooter on and off ball, smart playmaker.
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Was the Pacers picked that moved to the Clippers ours via the Siakam trade

If we didnt make any future moves do we keep #5
 
GEEMAN said:
Was the Pacers picked that moved to the Clippers ours via the Siakam trade

If we didnt make any future moves do we keep #5
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Haven't looked into it tbh. Sounds like it could have been. I thought NOP had it though.

If we had kept it though (which would mean no Ingram) then we definitely keep it in this draft imo.
 
Okay yeah, Indiana traded for their pick back last year at the draft for the 23rd and signing rights to some Aussie named Mojave.

Then Indiana traded it for Zubac this year.
 
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2026 NBA mock draft: AJ Dybantsa to Wizards; Darryn Peterson to Jazz

The Wizards were the big winners of Sunday's draft lottery, but there are plenty of potential difference-makers in this class.
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19. Toronto Raptors​

Jayden Quaintance | 6-10 big | 18 years old | Kentucky​

Quaintance only played in four games this year, as he attempted to return early from a torn ACL he suffered late last season. He looked like a potential defensive anchor for a Kentucky team that desperately needed one on the interior and played really well in the team’s win over St. John’s in his first game back. His mobility and defensive instincts jumped off the page when he was a 17-year-old at Arizona State and made the Big 12 All-Defensive team while averaging 1.1 steals and 2.6 blocks per game.

Projecting Quaintance is a fool’s errand until we get answers at the combine on his medicals and whether he can make a full comeback by the time the NBA season starts. If he were fully healthy this year, I think he’d be the 10th pick in this class, as he reminds me a lot of Robert Williams III, who made an All-Defensive team for the Boston Celtics. But the range is extremely wide for Quaintance. He’d fit in nicely with the Raptors’ decision to go all-in on mobile defenders with length and high-level defensive I
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