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Originally Posted by Beninho
Well the raptors won’t be getting anyone this year so we are supposed to stay with this lousy choking core for how much longer? And then get nothing for them? And Memphis is locked in to Conely and Gasol, they may be interested in Derozan
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So basically your hope is other teams are extremely inept and help the Raptors that way. I mean I guess that's a strategy. But you mentioned Conley and Gasol are locked in, well yeah, that's why the Raps are screwed for the next two years, they are locked into Lowry and Ibaka with no chance of trading them. Even adding DeRozan doesn't get them much past the first round, and they would give up meaningful assets to get him. It'd be great if they were that stupid though, but I don't really think relying on the stupidity of others is a good idea. Even the Celtics in their wildest dreams couldn't have imagined what their ultimate haul for Garnett and Pierce would end up being.
For the Raptors, all their best assets (i.e. coveted by other teams) to trade are young guys, and JV. And all you're getting for those are draft picks, maybe you get lucky and get a lottery pick or two out of that. At the end of the day, they don't have a lot of moves to make that are logical. Sadly they are stuck hoping for some luck. With the beauty of hindsight, trading Lowry way back when would have been ideal. But it's not, so here we are.
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Originally Posted by Jason14h
The NBA needs to remove the single player salary max. That way you don't end up with 2 (let alone 3 or 4) super stars on 1 team. Do you really think Durant is playing for GS if the Knicks or Lakers can offer him 75 million (Well yes cause Nike is paying him to play there to fight the Under Armor appeal of Curry, but let's pretend!)
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We all know this is the real issue, but it doesn't seem the NBA has much interest in changing it.