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Originally Posted by Psytic
Its loyalty to the players that stuck by the team and put their best years into these organizations. It can be hard to uproot their lives after they have been loyal to you if they aren't interested in leaving. Its not always just business there is a human factor. Look at the Raptors trading DeRozan, they are a better team for it but to him they stabbed him in the back and a lot of the players didn't like it and took notice.
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Totally agree with what you’re getting at but don’t know if using what might arguably be looked at as the best trade in raptors history as an example works or not. It’s not like the Raptors were past their window of competing, problem was they just weren’t good enough in their window to win with DeMar, and I think that was the right evaluation. That said I think it’s pretty hard to trade franchise defining players against their wishes just because a proverbial window has closed.